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  2. Dollar sign - Wikipedia

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    The dollar sign, also known as peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ( $ or depending on typeface ), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "peso" and "dollar". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the ...

  3. Currency sign (generic) - Wikipedia

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    U+00A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN ( ¤) Category. The currency sign ¤ is a character used to denote an unspecified currency. It can be described as a circle the size of a lowercase character with four short radiating arms at 45° (NE), 135° (SE), 225° (SW) and 315° (NW). It is raised slightly above the baseline. The character is sometimes called scarab.

  4. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  5. Emoji - Wikipedia

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    The first emoji set was created by Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in 1997, [5] with emoji becoming increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [6] [7] [8] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world.

  6. Emojipedia - Wikipedia

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    Emojipedia is an emoji reference website [1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters [2] in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia [3] or emoji dictionary, [4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes [5] and usage trends.

  7. Currency symbol - Wikipedia

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    A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by a monetary authority, such as the national central bank for the currency concerned. A symbol may be positioned in various ways, according to national convention: before, between or after the numeric amounts: €2.50, 2,50€ and 250 .

  8. Money gesture - Wikipedia

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    Money gesture. The money gesture, also known as the pay me gesture, is signalled by repeatedly rubbing one's thumb over the tip of the index finger and middle finger. The gesture resembles the act of rubbing coins or bills together and is generally used to indicate financial topic. [1] [2]

  9. Yen and yuan sign - Wikipedia

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    The yen and yuan sign ( ¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles a capital letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The symbol is usually placed before the value it represents, for example: ¥50, or JP¥50 and CN¥50 when disambiguation is ...