| ₨ | |
|---|---|
Rupee sign | |
| In Unicode | U+20A8 ₨RUPEE SIGN |
| Currency | |
| Currency | Mauritian rupee Nepalese rupee Pakistani rupee Seychellois rupee Sri Lankan rupee |
| Different from | |
| Different from | U+09F3 ৳BENGALI RUPEE SIGN (Bangladeshi taka) U+20B9 ₹INDIAN RUPEE SIGN (Indian rupee) |
 Category | |
The rupee sign "₨" is acurrency sign used to represent themonetary unit of account inPakistan,Sri Lanka,Nepal,Mauritius,Seychelles, and formerly inIndia. It resembles, and is often written as, theLatin character sequence "Rs", of which (as a single character) it is anorthographic ligature.
It is common to find a punctuation mark between the rupee symbol and the digits denoting the amount, for example "Re: 1" (for one unit), or "Rs. 140" (for more than one rupee).
On 15 July 2010, India introduced a new currency symbol, theIndian rupee sign,₹. This sign is a combination of theDevanagari letterर (ra) and theLatin capital letterR without its vertical bar (similar to theR rotunda).
| Script | Symbol in Unicode | Unicode version[a] |
|---|---|---|
| General | U+20A8 ₨RUPEE SIGN | 1.0 |
| General | U+20B9 ₹INDIAN RUPEE SIGN | 6.0 |
| Tamil | U+0BF9 ௹TAMIL RUPEE SIGN.[b] Compare ரூrū, which is also used.[c][d] | 4.0[4] |
| Gujarati | U+0AF1 ૱GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN It has been proposed that this code should be deprecated,[5] and the following sequence used instead:U+0AB0 રGUJARATI LETTER RA +U+0AC2 ૂGUJARATI VOWEL SIGN UU +U+0AF0 ૰GUJARATI ABBREVIATION SIGN →રૂ૰Unicode Names List notes the latter is "preferred spelling"[6] | 4.0[7][8] |
| Bengali | U+09F3 ৳BENGALI RUPEE SIGN, synonym "Bangladeshitaka".[9] Compare ট (ṭô) রু (ru.) and ৳ are also used in Bangla script outside Bangladesh for the Indian rupee/taka.[10] | 1.0 |
| North Indic (pre-decimalisation) | U+A838 ꠸NORTH INDIC RUPEE MARK A rupee was divided into 16 anas (sing.ānā, pl.āne in Hindi), and an ana into 12 pies (Hindipāī). Fractions were written with vertical marks for quarters and horizontal marks for sixteenths (or, in the case of pies, twelfths). Rupees were written in normal digits, anas as fractions, and pies either as fractions or in a hybrid digit-fraction notation. The rupee mark was placed after the rupees and anas and before the pies. For example, in English, 4 rupees 6 anas and 8 pies would be written "Rs. 4-6-8". (Note the three-part notation is similar to£pounds,shillings/pence in pre-decimal British currency.) The same quantity inDevanagari was written ४꠰꠴꠸꠱꠴ (4+1⁄42⁄16R2⁄42⁄12, the ४=4 here is Devanagari, the other symbols were all used across multiple northern scripts). There were intermediate quarter-ana (and in Marharashtra, quarter-rupee) currency units, so this could also be read "4rupāyā 1pavalī 2ānā 2paisā 2pāī". 40 rupees would be just ४०꠸, without any fractional part.[11] | 5.2[12] |
| Eastern Nagari (Bangla and Asamiya) – pre-decimalisation | U+09F2 ৲BENGALI RUPEE MARK (ṭākā) U+09F9 ৹BENGALI CURRENCY DENOMINATOR SIXTEEN (16ānā in oneṭākā) U+09FB ৻BENGALI GANDA MARK (20gaṇḍā in oneānā) Thetaka orana mark was written after the numerals, for example: ৩৭৲ (37taka); ১৫৷৶৹ (15taka 7ana, lit. "15+4+3⁄16"). (Note that the fraction numerator symbols are different from the regular numerals, there is no separator betweentaka andana.) Theganda mark was writtenbefore the value, e.g. ৻৫ (lit.ganda 5), ৭৷৶৻৭ (7taka 7ana 7ganda).[10] | 1.0 |
| Japanesekatakana | U+3353 ㍓SQUARE RUPII is a square version ofルピーrupī, the Japanese word for "rupee". It is intended forCJK Compatibility with earlier character sets. | 1.0 |
Rp is the standard abbreviation for theIndonesian rupiah.
This symbol is not present as a separate code point inISCII orPASCII.
