Editing Thai baht (section)

== Currency symbol ==
The [[currency symbol]] for the baht is <big>{{char|฿}}</big> (a Latin letter B with a vertical stroke). In 1986, this symbol was given a [[codepoint]] for computer use in the [[Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533]] (Thailand's [[extended ASCII|extension of ASCII]]), at position 0xDF. This national standard was subsequently subsumed into international standards as [[ISO/IEC 8859-11]] ("ISO Latin-Thai"). In turn, the ISO 8859 series were transposed into the [[Unicode]] standard,<ref>{{cite report |url=https://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-11.TXT |title=ISO/IEC 8859-11:2001 to Unicode |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]] |date=2015-12-02}}</ref> where the symbol was allocated the codepoint {{unichar|0E3F}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Unicode Standard, version 1.0 |chapter=Chapter 3/2 |chapter-url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/ch03_2.pdf |page=80 |date=October 1991}}</ref>
The symbol is also used for the [[Panamanian balboa]].<ref name="DPD">{{cite book |title=Diccionario panhispánico de dudas |publisher=Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española |edition=2.ª (versión provisional) |url=https://www.rae.es/dpd/ayuda/simbolos-o-signos-no-alfabetizables |access-date=16 July 2024 |language=es |chapter=Símbolos o signos no alfabetizables}}</ref>

=== Abbreviation ===
In Thai usage, the baht ({{lang|th|บาท}}) is legally abbreviated as {{lang|th|บ.}} according to Section 7 of the Currency Act, [[Buddhist Era|B.E.]] 2501.<ref>{{cite web |title=พระราชบัญญัติเงินตรา พ.ศ. 2501 (ฉบับประมวล) |url=https://www.bot.or.th/content/dam/bot/documents/th/laws-and-rules/laws-and-regulations/legal-department/2-currency-act/2-1-currency-act/2-1-1-Law-TH-CurrencyUpdated-2545.pdf |website=Bank of Thailand |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=th |date=2002}}</ref>

=== Bitcoin ===
For a time, the baht symbol was appropriated by some as a symbol for [[Bitcoin]], a [[cryptocurrency]]. Following representations,<ref>{{cite web |title=Proposal for addition of bitcoin sign |first=Ken |last=Shirriff |date=October 2, 2015 |publisher=Unicode Consortium |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15229-bitcoin-sign.pdf}}</ref> a separate code point ({{unichar|20BF}}, a Latin letter B with two vertical strokes) was allocated in Unicode version 10.0.<ref name="unicode-10">{{cite web |date=20 June 2017 |title=Unicode 10.0.0 |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/  |access-date=20 June 2017 |publisher=Unicode Consortium}}</ref>

=== Square katakana ===
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In Unicode 1.0, two codepoints were allocated to the baht, one as the currency symbol in [[Thai (Unicode block)|the Thai range]]  and one in the [[CJK Compatibility]] block as a square version of the Japanese word for "baht", written in [[katakana]] script.<ref name="Lunde" /> The CJK codepoint, {{unichar|332C}}, is documented in subsequent versions of the standard as "a mistaken, unused representation" and users are directed to {{unichar|0E3F}} instead.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 15.1 |chapter=CJK compatibility 3300{{ndash}}33FF |chapter-url=https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3300.pdf |page=3327{{ndash}}334C}}</ref> Consequently, only a few [[computer fonts]] have any content for this codepoint and its use is deprecated.<ref name="Lunde">{{cite web |title=CJK Type {{!}} CJK Fonts, Character Sets & Encodings. All CJK. All of the time. |first=Ken |last=Lunde |date= March 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629215711/http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/03/bahts-is-parts.html |archive-date=29 June 2016 |url=https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/03/bahts-is-parts.html |url-status=dead |publisher=Adobe Inc.}}</ref>

(The Japanese for "baht" is {{lang|ja|{{big|'''バ'''}}ーツ}} ({{Transliteration|ja|'''bā'''tsu}}). However, the reference glyph {{angbr|㌬}} and the character name correspond to {{lang|ja|{{big|'''パ'''}}ーツ}} ({{Transliteration|ja|'''pā'''tsu}}, from English "parts").<ref name="Lunde" />)

=== Historical symbols used before decimalization ===
Before decimalization, the Siamese government employed [[Chinese characters|Chinese]], [[Latin script|Latin]], [[Jawi script|Jawi]] ([[Malay language|Malay]]), [[Devanagari]], [[Khmer script|Khmer]] and [[Khom Thai script|Khom]], [[Tai Tham script|Lanna]], and [[Burmese script|Burmese]] scripts  in banknotes and coins, as seen. The reason is not clear, though it is a common understanding that it is to ease the facilicitation of trade within Siam. It could also be the case that at the time, the capital, Bangkok (Phra Nakhon) was still a multi-cultural city, so as to be more inclusive, the government added various other language onto the currency – though by the second series after the decimalization in the 1900s, the currency was all but monolingual.

{{lang-zh|c=圓|p=yuán|labels=no}} ({{lang|th|บาท}}): This character was use during the times of [[Mongkut|Rama IV]] to represent baht, though this was phased out by another character which is in partially and informally used today. The only occurrence of this character was in Rama IV's banknote series.

{{lang-zh|t=銖|s=铢|p=zhū|labels=no|first=t}} ({{lang|th|บาท}}): This character was in use from 1868–1925 officially on banknotes to represent baht. It is still in use today unofficially to refer to the Thai baht in general, as in {{lang|zh|泰銖}} or {{lang|zh|泰铢}}.

{{lang-zh|t=錢|s=銭|p=qián|labels=no|first=t}} ({{lang|th|สลึง}}): This character was in use from 1851–1908 officially on banknotes and coins to represent salueng.

{{lang-zh|c=方|p=fāng|labels=no}} ({{lang|th|เฟื้อง}}): This character was in use from 1851–1908 officially on banknotes and coins to represent fueang.

The notation for these Chinese character are written like they are in Thai, though there is a caveat: it is written right to left, as was the convention back then, so one baht is written {{lang|zh|圓壹}} or {{lang|zh|銖壹}}, if there are smaller units involved the notation can write like such: {{lang|zh|方銭參圓壹}} for one baht, three salueng, and one fueang.