The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
dollar sign, $, symbol that represents the dollar, the name of the standard monetary unit used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and a number of other countries and territories.
The $ (dollar sign) symbol is used to represent various forms of currency around the world, most notably the United States dollar. For example, $20 represents twenty dollars. In typesetting, the dollar sign is used to denote the beginning and end of mathematical mode.
2012年11月28日 · According to Rand, the dollar sign (written with two downward slashes instead of one) came from the initials of the United States: A capital U superimposed over a capital S, minus the lower...
2021年10月29日 · The U.S. dollar is America's currency as well as the world's reserve currency. Here are its denominations and history and the meaning of its symbols.
The dollar sign is among the world’s most potent symbols, emblematic of far more than US currency. It’s shorthand for the American dream and all the consumerism and commodification that comes...