$

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also $
$ U+0024, $
DOLLAR SIGN
#
[U+0023]
Basic Latin %
[U+0025]
💲 U+1F4B2, 💲
HEAVY DOLLAR SIGN
💱
[U+1F4B1]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 💳
[U+1F4B3]
U+FE69, ﹩
SMALL DOLLAR SIGN

[U+FE68]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE6A]
U+FF04, $
FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN

[U+FF03]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF05]

Translingual[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Description[edit]

An S-shape with one (or, in some typefaces, two) vertical line crossing it completely. See for the usage with explicitly two lines.

Etymology[edit]

$ appears to have evolved ca 1775 in the United States from a common abbreviation for pesos, also known as piastres or pieces of eight, a P/raised-S ligature PS that passed through a stage resembling ֆ.[1] It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.[2]

(computing): This sense is the result of homophony between English cache and cash, dollars being a form of cash.

Noun[edit]

$

  1. money
  2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
  3. dollar
    • 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
      Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million[sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
  4. escudo
  5. (computing) cache
    • 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes[2]:
      How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?

Derived terms[edit]

  • (money):
    • $$$ ((rating) expensive)
    • English: $$$ (large amount of money), O$P$ (owe money, pay money)
  • (cache): English: D$ (data cache), I$ (instruction cache)

Letter[edit]

$

  1. A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greed in business practices.
    "Micro$oft Window$"
    • 2015, "Pixtopia", season 1, episode 6b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
      [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"]
      Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h
  2. A substitute for the letter S, used as a censored or filter-avoidance spelling.

Derived terms[edit]

  • (money or greed): English: CO$ (Church of Scientology); Micro$oft, M$, M$FT (Microsoft); $cientology (Scientology)
  • (censored or filter-avoidance): English: @$$ (ass), le$bian (lesbian)

Symbol[edit]

$

  1. The symbol for the dollar and peso, or by convention, other currency.
  2. The unofficial symbol for the escudo.
  3. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.

Usage notes[edit]

When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar”, not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”.

When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.

Derived terms[edit]

  • (currency):
    • A$, AU$ (Australian dollar); C$ (córdoba); NT$ (New Taiwan dollar); NZ$ (New Zealand dollar); R$ (real)
    • English: C$ (Canadian dollar; Confederate dollar); U$, US$ (United States dollar)
  • (variable): English: $DEITY (generic deity)

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Currency signs

Formerly used currency signs


References[edit]

  1. ^ A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
  2. ^ “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 22 May 2009, archived from the original on 2007-09-28