Peso Symbol

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Peso Symbol

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17 peso signs and codes. Tap any value to copy it.

17 peso signs and codes. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
CharacterNameCode pointAlt codeHTMLLaTeX
U+20B1. The peso sign of the Philippines, which Unicode also calls the Filipino peso sign: a P with two horizontal strokes. No Alt code and no HTML name; \textpeso in LaTeX text.
Made of U+20B1 and the digits 100: a hundred pesos, the value of a banknote.
The ISO 4217 code: PH is the country code of the Philippines and P is for peso. One of the spellings used when the sign is missing.
U+0024. The peso sign of Latin America. By the most widely accepted account it began as an abbreviation of pesos, and the dollar adopted it later. On the keyboard at Shift+4.
Made of the letters M, e, x and U+0024: the abbreviation that tells the Mexican peso from other money written with $.
Mexico's peso among the ISO 4217 codes.

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How it works

The peso symbol is ₱, Peso sign, U+20B1: a P with two horizontal strokes, the sign of the Philippine peso. The pesos of Mexico, Colombia and the rest of Latin America are written with $.

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Two peso signs

₱ belongs to the Philippines, where it was introduced on 3 August 1903 to set the peso apart from the dollar. In most countries of the Americas the peso currency symbol is $, which by the most widely accepted account began as an abbreviation of pesos; the dollar took it over later.

The peso sign on a keyboard

₱ has no Alt code and no key on the U.S. layout. The Philippine peso sign is also written PHP, PhP or a plain P. $ is in the keyboard at Shift+4, and \textpeso gives ₱ in LaTeX text.

  • PHP is the ISO 4217 code: PH for the Philippines, P for peso.
  • ₧ is the peseta sign of Spain and not a peso sign.

Questions and answers

What is the Philippine peso symbol?

₱, Peso sign, U+20B1, which Unicode also names the Filipino peso sign. It was added in version 3.2, in 2002. In letters, the symbol for Philippine peso currency is the code PHP.

What is the alt code for the peso sign?

There is none: ₱ is in neither Alt code table. No alt code for the Mexican peso is needed either, because its sign is the $ of the keyboard. In a web page ₱ is ₱.

What is the Mexican peso symbol?

$, the same character as the dollar sign. Mexico's currency is also abbreviated Mex$ and has the code MXN. Unicode notes that the Chilean and the Colombian peso use the dollar sign too.

Is there a peso emoji?

No. The banknote emoji show the dollar, the euro, the pound and the yen, and no emoji carries ₱. The Philippine money sign is a plain text character.

All 17 peso signs and codes

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  • Dollar sign U+0024. The peso sign of Latin America. By the most widely accepted account it began as an abbreviation of pesos, and the dollar adopted it later. On the keyboard at Shift+4.
  • Mexican peso, abbreviated Made of the letters M, e, x and U+0024: the abbreviation that tells the Mexican peso from other money written with $.
  • MXN, the code of the Mexican peso Mexico's peso among the ISO 4217 codes.
  • One hundred Philippine pesos Made of U+20B1 and the digits 100: a hundred pesos, the value of a banknote.
  • Peso sign U+20B1. The peso sign of the Philippines, which Unicode also calls the Filipino peso sign: a P with two horizontal strokes. No Alt code and no HTML name; \textpeso in LaTeX text.
  • PHP, the code of the Philippine peso The ISO 4217 code: PH is the country code of the Philippines and P is for peso. One of the spellings used when the sign is missing.

The Philippine peso 2

  • Latin capital letter p U+0050. A bare capital, the simplest stand-in for ₱ where a font lacks the sign; PhP is another.
  • Square peso U+3337. Two katakana, ペソ, fitted into one square: the Japanese word for peso as older Japanese type set it.
Show all 17 peso signs and codes (9 more)

Peso codes 6

  • ARS, the code of the Argentine peso Argentina's peso. Its third letter is S: not every code ends in the initial of its unit.
  • CLP, the code of the Chilean peso Chile's peso, which the ISO list gives no decimal places.
  • COP, the code of the Colombian peso CO for Colombia, P for peso.
  • CUP, the code of the Cuban peso The Cuban peso: CU, then P.
  • DOP, the code of the Dominican peso The Dominican peso, from DO, the country code of the Dominican Republic.
  • UYU, the code of the Uruguayan peso Uruguay's peso, where the last letter repeats the U of the country.

Not a peso sign 3

  • Latin capital letter p with stroke U+2C63. An alphabet character with nothing monetary about it; ᵽ is its small form. The second shape that ₱ gets distinguished from.
  • Peseta sign U+20A7. Spain's peseta, a different currency whose Unicode entry and the peso's point to each other. It has an Alt code, Alt+158, which ₱ lacks.
  • Ruble sign U+20BD. The ruble sign of Russia, built on a Cyrillic letter. The pair ₱ and ₽ is a known mix-up.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case. Notes that begin Unicode's note quote NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT), the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT). Option keys are those of the U.S. keyboard layout as CLDR records it (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-42/keyboards/osx/en-t-k0-osx.xml); other layouts differ. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx, ltoutenc.dtx or utf8ienc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb source (https://ctan.org/pkg/amsfonts) defines them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). Compose sequences are from the X.org en_US.UTF-8 Compose file (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre). Two characters have PESO in their Unicode name, found by a search of UnicodeData.txt. The Philippine sign, the day it was introduced, its other spellings and the two shapes it is told apart from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_peso_sign; the hundred-peso note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_peso. That $ was an abbreviation of pesos before the dollar adopted it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peso; that this is the most widely accepted of several accounts of the sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign. Mex$ and MXN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_peso. The eight peso codes and how a code is made: the active codes table of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217. All read on 2026-10-03 and restated in this site's own words. The made rows state no price beyond a banknote's face value. The order and the look-alikes are this site's own choice. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)

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