• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s supposed to go before the number, not after. It should have been written $1.5B. The British do the same thing with the pound.

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        9 months ago

        Then so is the Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Euro (in English), Chinese Yuan and Japanese Yen, Russian Ruble, Indian Rupee…

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          9 months ago

          Interestingly enough, the yen is written in front when you use the yen symbol that’s internationally recognized, as in ¥1000, but locally in Japan they often put the word for yen (円) on price tags instead, and that goes after the number, as in 1000円.

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              9 months ago

              Nah, very common, and not just handwritten either. If you image search for 値札 (price tag) you get tons of results with the 円 version like below. I see it all the time in stores.

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                  9 months ago

                  I’m sorry, but you’re simply wrong. For example, every conbini in the country has virtually all their goods labeled with 円 instead of ¥, which alone is tens of thousands of shops. I dunno if you ran into a few weird shops in your time in Japan, but I’m telling you that daily life here involves way more “en” than “yen”.