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Dollar Sign

Unicode
U+0024
Category
Currency
HTML Entity
$
CSS
\0024
The Dollar Sign ($) is a globally recognized currency symbol primarily used to represent dollar-denominated currencies like the US, Canadian, and Australian dollar. Historically derived from the abbreviation for the Spanish peso, its inclusion in the original ASCII standard makes it a foundational character in modern computing. Beyond finance, it frequently appears in everyday digital communication to denote money, wealth, or pricing.

How to Type

Windows
Shift + 4 (US layout) or Alt + 0036
macOS
Shift + 4 (US layout)
Linux
Shift + 4 (US layout)
HTML
$ or $

In Programming

In programming, the dollar sign is heavily used as a variable prefix in languages like PHP and Bash, and to evaluate template literals in JavaScript. It also functions in regular expressions as an anchor to match the end of a string or line.

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