$Dollar symbol
The dollar sign, shared by dozens of currencies beyond the US.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? 💲 Heavy Dollar Sign — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+24
- Alt code
- Alt+36
- HTML
- $
- Unicode name
- Dollar Sign
Where the Dollar symbol comes from
The dollar sign predates the dollar. It came from the Spanish peso, written as an abbreviated pS in eighteenth-century American commercial records; the S drifted over the p until only a stroke remained. The United States adopted the existing merchants’ mark rather than inventing one.
Currency in a dozen countries, and far beyond money: shell variables, regular expressions, spreadsheet absolute references and jQuery all borrowed it because it was one of the few punctuation marks on early keyboards nobody had claimed.
Dollar symbol codes
Copy whichever form your tool expects. The character behind them does not change.
How to type $ on any keyboard
Pick the route that matches the program in front of you.
Will $ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Safe everywhere. This one is in almost every font ever installed, including the defaults on Windows, Mac and Android.
Symbols people confuse with $
These look alike but are different characters — different codes, different fonts, sometimes different meaning.
Other currency symbols
Symbols from the same family, each with its own page: where it came from, how to type it and how well fonts support it.
Currency symbols
Every currency sign, from the euro to the rupee and the bitcoin.