A currency symbol has to do something almost no other mark does: sit inside a number without being read as one. 40 of them here, each with the codepoint that lets a machine store it.
32 of 40 are a letter with strokes through it — and the letter is almost always the first letter of the currency's own name in its own script. It is one of the most consistent design conventions in the world and it is nowhere written down as a rule. 6 take their form from a script character rather than a Latin letter — and 5 of those 6 are struck as well, so the two are not separate groups. The convention travels across scripts; it is the stroke that is universal, not the alphabet.
A slightly modified Armenian capital letter Դ (da), the initial of դրամ, with two horizontal strokes crossing its left stem — the Armenian counterpart of the bar-through-letter currency convention.
The inherited dollar sign, disambiguated abroad by the prefixed A$ or AU$; on introduction the two-stroke $ was intended, with the one-stroke form always acceptable.
A rounded lowercase Latin m — the two arches drawn as a single semicircular wave — crossed by one vertical (or slightly diagonal) stroke through its centre; resembles a single-bar euro sign rotated 90° clockwise.
The Bengali letter ট (tro), the initial of টাকা (taka, 'money'), with a diagonal stroke through its upper bowl — a Bengali-script letter marked as a currency sign.
A capital letter B with two vertical strokes going through it, the lines drawn only at the top and bottom of the B's stem rather than crossing its bowls; glyph variants differ in serifs, line weights and stroke position.
A composite: capital R followed by the dollar sign U+0024 — the 'cifrão' of Brazilian Portuguese — written before the amount, spaced or unspaced; no single codepoint exists.
A Khmer-script រ (rô), the initial of រៀល (riel), drawn in decorative Khmer lettering with an ornamental flourish — the only currency sign written in Khmer script.
The inherited dollar sign, with C$/Can$/CA$ composites for distinction; no dedicated Canadian codepoint and no standard disambiguating form.
A capital letter C crossed by two diagonal strokes — the only currency sign with slanted rather than horizontal bars.
No sign of its own: the Greek capital Xi (Ξ) is borrowed as a text stand-in; the brand mark is the 'diamond' octahedron logo — two rhombs point-to-point — which exists only as an image, not a character.
A rounded C-like epsilon — the Greek epsilon — crossed by two clearly parallel horizontal strokes of equal length.
A capital F with a double bar — but the sign was proposed in 1988 and never adopted; French practice wrote F or Fr. The codepoint exists, the usage did not.
The single-arched Georgian Mkhedruli letter ლ (lasi) — a curve like an open lambda with a horizontal baseline leg — crossed by two parallel horizontal strokes that the National Bank specified must remain distinct.
A capital C crossed by a single vertical stroke — formally a cent-sign-like mark; current usage prefixes GH to distinguish the Ghanaian unit, writing GH₵, or borrows the cent sign as GH¢.
A blend of the Devanagari letter र (ra) and the Latin capital R without its vertical bar: a single stem with two parallel horizontal strokes at the top and a curved lower bowl.
A ligature of the two Hebrew letters that open the words of the currency's name — ש (shin) and ח (het) — drawn as one connected mark.
A capital L with two horizontal strokes — but the Unicode sign is a compatibility character with no formal status, admitted for the HP Roman-8 character set; in Italian practice L., Lit., ₤ and £ were all used, with no standard sign.
A Latin capital Y crossed by one or, in Japanese rendering tradition, two horizontal strokes; the double-bar form dominates Japanese fonts, the single-bar form Western fonts — one codepoint, two glyph traditions.
A T-like letterform — vertical stem with a full-width horizontal crossbar — beneath which a second, shorter horizontal stroke sits at the baseline, echoing the lower bar of the Cyrillic capital Т of теңге.
A capital Latin K with a single horizontal stroke through its stem — the initial of 'kip' marked as a currency sign.
No dedicated sign: the Polish letter Ł — Latin L crossed by a diagonal stroke between 45° and 70°, never horizontal — is borrowed as the litecoin mark; where Ł is unavailable, a plain L is used.
A capital Latin T with two horizontal strokes — one the letter's own crossbar, a second parallel bar added above it — the initial of tögrög drawn with the double-bar currency convention.
A composite: the letters NT prefixed to the inherited dollar sign to distinguish it from other dollar currencies; in Chinese, 元 (colloquial) or 圓 (formal/legal writing) follows the number.
The inherited dollar sign, with NZ$ (or $NZ) prefixed when distinguishing from other dollars — particularly the Australian; no dedicated codepoint.
A capital Latin N — the initial of naira — crossed by a double horizontal stroke, following the two-bar currency convention.
The generic rupee sign — an orthographic ligature of the Latin letters R and s — shared by the Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Mauritian and Seychellois rupees since India adopted its own distinct sign in 2010. A dedicated Urdu-script rupee mark exists in Unicode (U+1B772 Arabic Rupee Sign area proposals) but is not in common use.
A capital Latin G — the initial of guaraní — with a bar through it drawn as a single stroke extending left from the letter's mouth, doubled in some typefaces.
A capital Latin P crossed by two parallel horizontal strokes through its stem (a one-stroke struck-through P is also written by hand).
An ornate upper-case L with a single or double horizontal crossbar; the two-bar form is the older, the single-bar the modern typographic norm; both are allographs of the one codepoint.
Uses the Latin-script ¥ of the yen — capital Y with one or two crossbars — with no dedicated codepoint of its own; in Chinese input, typing $ produces the fullwidth ￥. In Chinese text the character 元 (formally 圓 for legal writing) follows the number in lieu of a symbol.
The Cyrillic capital letter Р (the initial of рубль) crossed by two horizontal bars, the lower extending from the bowl of the Р and a second parallel bar one stroke-width above it.
A plain capital Latin R — not a designed sign and not a distinct codepoint; the letter of the currency name does the work of a symbol.
A capital Latin W — the initial of won — crossed centrally by one horizontal stroke; some fonts draw two, and the codepoint covers both.
The Unicode reference glyph is a ligature of the letters Pts — from the typewriter practice of striking 'Pts' on a single typehead; an erroneous P-with-stroke glyph shipped in early Unicode and was later corrected to the Pts ligature.
No dedicated glyph exists. The currency is written with the abbreviation Fr. (German) or fr. (Romance languages), or the ISO code CHF; the older SFr. and fr.sv. are documented as outdated.
A capital Latin letter B with a single vertical stroke through it — drawn within the Thai block's typographic conventions.
An angular capital L drawn as a half anchor (vertical stem with a bottom curve returning right), enclosing a small letter T whose crossbar extends as two upward-angled parallel strokes through the stem.
A cursive minuscule Ukrainian Cyrillic letter г (he) — like a mirrored Latin S — crossed by a double horizontal stroke.
A capital S crossed by one vertical stroke (US practice) or two full-height vertical strokes (the cifrão tradition); Unicode treats one- and two-stroke forms as glyph variants of one character.
A lowercase Latin d with a bar through its stem and a double crossbar at the ascender — in most fonts a crossed đ extended with a second stroke, referencing đồng's initial d.