What 💲 means
💲 is the heavy dollar sign emoji, filed under Symbols in the currency subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
💲 is a single code point, U+1F4B2.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Worth knowing
- The $ sign was in wide use before the US dollar was adopted in 1785. The most widely accepted explanation traces it to a handwritten abbreviation for Spanish pesos, with the S written over the P.
Questions people ask
1Does 💲 mean US dollars only?
No. It reads as money in general. The $ sign also marks Canadian, Australian and other dollars, plus several Latin American pesos, so only context shows which currency is meant.
How to type 💲
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “heavy dollar sign”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “heavy dollar sign”.
Chat apps
:heavy_dollar_sign:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
💲Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
💲
HTML hex
💲
CSS content
content: "\1F4B2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%92%B2
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.