I just sorted out the currency symbols of different countries and found that many people are actually mixing them up. For example, the $ symbol isn’t only for US dollars—Canada, Australia, and Singapore all use it too. If you want to distinguish them, you’d write US$, A$, or S$.

The most interesting one is the ¥ symbol. Japan uses it to represent the Japanese yen, while China uses it to represent the Chinese yuan (renminbi), and you can’t tell the difference just by looking. That’s why some people write CNY￥100 or JPY￥100 to tell them apart. There’s also the NT$ symbol for the Taiwan dollar, which many people also easily confuse with the renminbi.

If you often trade forex, like currency pairs such as EUR/USD and GBP/JPY, knowing the symbols is actually very helpful—it lets you quickly recognize exchange-rate trends. The euro € , the British pound £ , and the Japanese yen ¥ each have their own look. On Mac and Windows, you can even use shortcut keys to input them—on Mac, for example, pressing Shift+option+2 lets you type €, and on Windows, Alt+E also works.

Here’s a fun fact: the ฿ symbol represents Thailand’s Thai baht, and in cryptocurrency it also stands for Bitcoin, so you need to rely on the context to figure it out. Have you ever run into symbol confusion when trading?