The currency exchange emoji is the universal “swap the money” button: perfect for talking travel budgets, forex flexing, crypto swaps, or that moment you realize the souvenir mug costs three lunches back home. It screams conversion time—think USD⇄JPY brain math at the checkout, sending remittances with a side-eye at fees, or posting a rate-check story with country flags and a tiny panic emoji. People drop it when the exchange rate does drama, when the bank takes a mysterious “service fee,” or ironically when they’re just trading vibes for vibes. In meme mode, it’s used for arbitrage jokes, “convert my broke to rich pls,” or whenever your wallet experiences culture shock abroad.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean, sky-blue rounded square with crisp white circular arrows wrapping around a bold dollar sign and yen symbol—arrowheads pointing in a neat clockwise loop. The contrasty white-on-blue icon pops like an airport kiosk sign, instantly readable in a feed or chat. Even though it shows $ and ¥, it’s shorthand for any currency swap, from pesos to pounds to that one token your crypto friend swears is “about to moon.” Pair it with ✈️, 🪪, or 🧾 for peak traveler realism—or with 😭 when the conversion rate says “not today.”
Definition
An icon showing arrows to and from yen to $.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
549 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:currency_exchange:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Money Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Money Symbols
Names & Annotations
CURRENCY EXCHANGE Temporary Notes: $ and ¥ signs, exchange rate
Symbol Information
U+1F4B1 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-4DE
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[$￥]
KDDI
[$￥]
Softbank
#433 #old163 為替 U+E149 SJIS-F78A
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
💱
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
💱
Decimal HTML Entity
💱
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
💱
Hex Code Point(s)
1f4b1
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4B1
Decimal Code Point(s)
128177
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xB1
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 92 B1
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 222 261
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCB1
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcb1
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56497
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4B1
UTF-32 Hex
01F4B1
UTF-32 Dec
128177
Python Src
u"\U0001F4B1"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x92\xb1"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCB1"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
