Rupee sign

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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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 (ra) and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar (similar to the R rotunda).