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Rupee sign

Rupee sign

Overview of symbols used to represent currency in rupee-using countries

This article is about the generic rupee sign used by a number of countries. For the sign used for the Indian rupee, see Indian rupee sign.

The rupee sign "₨" is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, and formerly in India. It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs", of which (as a single character) it is an orthographic ligature.

Quick Facts ₨, In Unicode ...

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, the Indian rupee sign, ₹. This sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र (ra) and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar (similar to the R rotunda).

In Unicode

More information Script, Symbol in Unicode ...

Rp

Rp is the standard abbreviation for the Indonesian rupiah.

Legacy encoding

This symbol is not present as a separate code point in ISCII or PASCII.

Notes

  1. Version of Unicode standard where the symbol was first included.
  2. Also code 0x96 in TAM (Tamil Monolingual encoding),[1] and code E106 in TACE16 (Tamil All Character Encoding).[2]
  3. "...the syllable ரூ seen for rupee instead of (the already encoded) ௹."[3]
  4. The shape at the end of the "tail" is an abbreviation mark that is also used in some other symbols. "In passing, one notes that some sources given a lesser known alternate glyph for rupee where the Tamil abbreviation mark is joined with the ரூ (rū, for rūpāy) below the base and not above (as currently shown in the code chart)."[3]

References

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    Chellappan, P. "TAM to Unicode conversion" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
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    P.W.C. Davidar (23 June 2010). "Standards Prescribed for 16-bit coding of Tamil Script" (PDF). Government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
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    Sharma, Shriramana (12 July 2017). "Proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols" (PDF). pp. 14–15.
  4. [4]
    "The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Tamil" (PDF). 2003.
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    Pandey, Anshuman (7 October 2009). "L2/09-331 Proposal to Deprecate Gujarati Rupee Sign" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  6. [6]
    "None".
  7. [7]
    "The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Gujarati" (PDF). 2003.
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    "02117, Proposal summary form: Additional Characters for Indic Scripts" (PDF). 21 March 2002.
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    "Bengali. Range: 0980–09FF" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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    Pandey, Anshuman (21 May 2007). "Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF).
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    Pandey, Anshuman (15 May 2007). "Proposal to Encode North Indian Accounting Signs in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF).
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    "Common Indic Number Forms" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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