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Appendix:Variations of "s" 20px|link=Unsupported titles/Cifrão Ֆ ֆ ₴ 弗
$
💲 ﹩ $
Translingual
Dollar sign
Alternative forms
20px|link=Unsupported titles/Cifrão
Description
An S-shape with one or, in some typefaces, two vertical lines crossing it completely. See 20px|link=Unsupported titles/Cifrão for the usage with explicitly two lines.
Etymology
mul :der es:PS 1
1770s, mul es PS, es pesos 1 1.1993 Florian Cajori A history of mathematical notations http://books.google.com/books?id=7juWmvQSTvwC&pg=RA1-PA22&dq=isbn:0486677664#PRA1-PA23,M1
The "computing" sense is the result of homophony between mul en cache and en cash, dollars being a form of cash.
Noun
money
en mul 1954 Donald Duck filmography Donald's Diary Uncle Ray's Loans / We lend $$$
various currencies called dollar
en mul 18 September 1974 Earl Wilson Alive & Well in Show Biz The Press Atlantic City final Atlantic City, N.J. 35 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/920796609/ 2 13786878 PRODUCER DAVID MERRICK recently sued a telecastress and her stations for several million $ for saying that big stars wouldn’t work for him . . .
1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
mul Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
peso
escudo
pataca
milreis
mul computing cache
en mul 2010 CIS501 lecture notes https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cis501-Fall10/lectures/07_superscalar.pdf w:University of Pennsylvania How to provide additional D$ bandwidth? https://web.archive.org/web/20240417175759/https://acg.cis.upenn.edu/milom/cis501-Fall10/lectures/07_superscalar.pdf 6
Derived terms
mul money $$$<t:rating expensive> en:$$$<t:large amount of money> en:O$P$<t:owe money, pay money>
mul cache en:D$<t:data cache> en:I$<t:instruction cache>
Letter
mul letter
A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or perceived greed in business practices.
mul Micro$oft Window$
en mul 1971-02-26 Motor City: March Special advertisement w:The Daily Herald-Tribune Grande Prairie Bowes Publishers Limited 58 168 After Hours 2 BE SAFE - BE SURE ¶ Come in NOW and $AVE
en mul 1992 w:Michael Rumaker To Kill a Cardinal [Rocky Mount, N.C.] Arthur Mann Kaye 37 https://archive.org/details/tokillcardinal0000ruma/page/37/mode/1up 0-9632962-2-1 While shrilly blowing whistles and setting off marine fog horns, they began scattering queer—as in “queer-as-a-three-dollar-bill”—money, phony 100s, 50s and 10s created by the activist artists group Gran Fury, down onto the floor of The Exchange, the backs of the bills reading: FUCK YOUR PROFITEERING. PEOPLE ARE DYING WHILE YOU PLAY BUSINESS. AID$ NOW.
en mul 6 May 1992 w:The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton, Ont. C1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1013269595/ 6 1189-9417 828913374 BEST BUY$
en mul 2015 Pixtopia 1 6b w:Star vs. the Forces of Evil the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash" Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h
A substitute for the letter S, used as a censored or filter-avoidance spelling.
mul $h!t shit 1
Derived terms
mul money or greed 0 en:CO$<t:Church of Scientology> Micro$oft//M$//M$FT<t:Microsoft> en:$cientology<t:Scientology>
mul censored or filter-avoidance en:@$$<t:ass> en:le$bian<t:lesbian>
Symbol
dollar sign
A currency sign for the dollar, peso and pataca.
en mul Susan Griffin How the super rich party at the Monaco Grand Prix w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/24/style/parties-monaco-grand-prix-f1 2024-05-24 Some bottles of champagne at Amber Lounge afterparties can cost €20,000 ($21,600). https://web.archive.org/web/20240828180731/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/24/style/parties-monaco-grand-prix-f1/
en mul Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/business/us-steel-nippon-trump-deal 2025-06-13 US Steel was once a symbol of American industrial power. It was the most valuable company in the world and, soon after its 1901 creation, became the first to be worth $1 billion. https://web.archive.org/web/20250825182232/https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/business/us-steel-nippon-trump-deal
An unofficial currency sign for the escudo.
mul programming Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, such as Perl, PHP or shell scripts.
mul crypto Prefix indicating a cryptocurrency.
en mul Aaron Katersky; Soo Rin Kim; Laura Romero Federal prosecutors looking into Bannon-backed cryptocurrency $FJB, say sources ABC News (United States) ABC News https://abcnews.com/US/federal-prosecutors-bannon-backed-cryptocurrency-fjb-sources/story?id=97863276 2023-03-14 Critics say $FJB represents the latest in a string of ill-fated efforts to leverage MAGA support for financial returns -- particularly on the part of Bannon, who in September pleaded not guilty to unrelated charges that he defrauded donors with the promise of building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. https://web.archive.org/web/20260302073430/https://abcnews.com/US/federal-prosecutors-bannon-backed-cryptocurrency-fjb-sources/story?id=97863276
mul linguistics phonology syllable.
mul σ
Usage notes
When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, "$1" is read as one dollar, not dollar one. Writing the symbol first in English is unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: "1 $", "2,50 $".
When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos and centavos, e.g. 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is 15px|link=Unsupported titles/Cifrão (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.
Derived terms
mul currency A$<t:Australian dollar> AU$<t:Australian dollar> C$<t:córdoba; Canadian dollar> en:C$<t:Confederate dollar> NT$<t:New Taiwan dollar> NZ$<t:New Zealand dollar> R$<t:Brazilian real> en:U$<t:United States dollar> en:US$<t:United States dollar>
mul variable en:$DEITY<t:generic deity>
Related terms
20px|link=Unsupported titles/Cifrão
See also
References
mul Wealth
Category:Currency symbols