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.

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.

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Rupee sign
In UnicodeU+20A8 ₨ RUPEE SIGN
Currency
CurrencyMauritian rupee
Nepalese rupee
Pakistani rupee
Seychellois rupee
Sri Lankan rupee
Different from
Different fromU+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN (Bangladeshi taka)

U+20B9 ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN (Indian rupee)

U+0BF9 ௹ TAMIL RUPEE SIGN (Sri Lankan rupee alternative sign)
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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).

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