U+20A8 Rupee Sign
U+20A8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Currency Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Currency Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Latin Capital Letter R, Latin Small Letter S. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as end of a European number, e.g., a currency symbol, from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+20A8 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “rupee” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: currency.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
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.
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).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8360 |
| UTF-8 | E2 82 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 20 A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%82%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ₨ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ₨ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 B2 38 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni20A8 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| RUPEE SIGN | |
| — | |
| Currency Symbols | |
| Currency Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Latin Capital Letter R Latin Small Letter S | |
| ✘ | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter R Latin Small Letter S | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter R Latin Small Letter S | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter R Latin Small Letter S | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Rupee Sign | |
| R |