$

See also: Appendix:Variations of "s", ＄, ﹩, Ֆ, ֆ, ₴, and 弗

$ 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

Description

An S-shape with one or two vertical lines crossing it completely.

Etymology

$ 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]

Noun

$

  1. Abbreviation of money.
  2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) Abbreviation of peso.
  3. Abbreviation of 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. Abbreviation of escudo.

Letter

$

  1. A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy 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

Symbol

$

  1. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.

Derived terms

Usage notes

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.

See also

Currency signs

  • ₾ – lari
  • ₴ – hryvnia
  • ₭ – kip
  • ₺ – Turkish lira
  • ₼ – manat
  • ₥ – mill
  • ₦ – naira
  • ₱ – Philippine peso
  • £ – pound
  • ﷼‎ – rial or riyal
  • ៛ – riel
  • ރ – rufiyaa
  • ₽ – ruble
  • ₨ – rupee
  • ௹ – rupee
  • ₹ – Indian rupee
  • ৲ or ৳ – taka
  • ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
  • ₪ – new shekel
  • ₸ – tenge
  • ₮ – tugrik
  • ₩ – won
  • ¥ – yen or yuan

Formerly used currency signs

  • ₳ – austral
  • ₠ – ECU (European Currency Unit)
  • ₢ – cruzeiro
  • ₯ – drachma
  • ₣ – French franc
  • ₤ – Italian lira
  • ₶ – livre tournois
  • ℳ – mark
  • ₧ – peseta
  • ₰ – pfennig
  • ₷ – spesmilo

References
  1. A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
  2. “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 22 May 2009, archived from the original on {archivedate:automatic}
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