What ﹩ means
No, it is the plain dollar sign, drawn small. Chinese text sets every character in a square cell of the same width. Taiwan's national character standard CNS 11643, announced in 1986, included small versions of punctuation and a few symbols that sit inside such a cell. Unicode copied them in its early versions so old text could be converted back and forth without loss. ﹩ is one of that set, alongside a small comma ﹐, small parentheses ﹙﹚ and similar.
To a computer, though, ﹩ and are different characters. A search for can miss a price written with ﹩, screen readers may announce it as "small dollar sign", and some fonts don't draw it at all. Systems that apply compatibility normalization quietly turn it back into .
Where you'll see it: text copied from older Taiwanese documents, and "fancy text" nicknames or bios where someone wants a smaller-looking . Either way, read it as a dollar sign.
Neutral and technical: a layout variant of , with no tone or slang of its own.
Its small size does not mean a small amount, cents or a different currency.
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2Can I use ﹩ for prices?
You can, but is safer. Searches, spreadsheets and some fonts may not treat ﹩ as a dollar sign.
Will normalization keep the small form?
No. NFKC and NFKD convert it to ; NFC and NFD keep it.
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How to type or find ﹩
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- ﹩ · tiny dollar sign · mini dollar · fe69 · small form variant · cns 11643
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
﹩\FE69Codes and encoding1 code points
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