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:
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet. In Indonesia and the Maldives, the unit of currency is known as rupiah and rufiyaa respectively, cognates of the word rupee.
The Indian rupees (₹) and Pakistani rupees (Rs. ) are subdivided into one hundred paise (singular paisa) or pice. The Nepalese rupee (रू) subdivides into one hundred paisa (singular and plural) or four sukaas. The Mauritian, Seychellois, and Sri Lankan rupees subdivide into 100 cents.
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 | ₨ |
| 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 |