RMB symbol:? , Japanese yen symbol: ￥: (one horizontal).

1 955 March1day, the People's Bank of China officially confirmed the symbol of RMB for the first time when it issued the second set of RMB. Because the unit of RMB is Yuan, and the Chinese pinyin of Yuan is yuán, the symbol of RMB adopts the capital "Y" of the capital letter of the head of state.

In order to prevent misunderstanding and misprinting with "Y" and Arabic numerals, two horizontal lines are added to the word "Y", and the pronunciation is still "Yuan". It should be noted that one yuan is the symbol of Japanese yen, and RMB is two yuan.

The Japanese word "Wu" is the abbreviation of "Yuan" (simplified Chinese character), pronounced as "ぇん" (en), and 1 円 = 100 yuan = 1000 Li.

The currency symbol of Japanese yen is "Yuan", which is different from the symbol of RMB (RMB is USD with two stripes). The English pronunciation is "yen" (pronounced [jen]). Tan O 42 17 defines its standard code as JPY (Japanese yen). In order to distinguish it from RMB, Japanese yen can be recorded as JPY RMB.

The origin of RMB

1 955 March1day, the People's Bank of China officially confirmed the symbol of RMB for the first time when it issued the second set of RMB. Because the unit of RMB is Yuan, and the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Yuan is yuán, the first letter Y in the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Yuan is adopted as the symbol of RMB.

In order to distinguish "Y" from Arabic numerals, two lines were added to the word "Y" to write "?" The pronunciation is still "yuan". From then on, people began to use "?" The symbol represents RMB, and it is used as the symbol of the head when writing the digital amount, such as RMB 100? 100 "or" RMB? 100"。