Rupee sign explained

Mark:
Currency:Mauritian rupee
Nepalese rupee
Pakistani rupee
Seychellois rupee
Sri Lankan rupee
Different From: (Bangladeshi taka)
(Indian rupee)
(Sri Lankan rupee alternative 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.

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

Unicode code points for rupee and related currency! Script !! Symbol in Unicode!Unicode version
General 1.0
General 6.0
. Compare ரூ , which is also used.4.0[1]
It has been proposed that this code should be deprecated,[2] and the following sequence used instead:Unicode Names List notes the latter is "preferred spelling"[3] 4.0[4] [5]
, synonym "Bangladeshi taka".[6] Compare ট (ṭô) রু (ru.) and ৳ are also used in Bangla script outside Bangladesh for the Indian rupee/taka.1.0
North Indic (pre-decimalisation) A rupee was divided into 16 anas (sing. ānā, pl. āne in Hindi), and an ana into 12 pies (Hindi pāī). Fractions were written with vertical marks for quarters and horizontal marks for sixteenths (or, in the case of pies, twelfths). Rupees were written in normal digits, anas as fractions, and pies either as fractions or in a hybrid digit-fraction notation. The rupee mark was placed after the rupees and anas and before the pies.

For example, in English, 4 rupees 6 anas and 8 pies would be written "Rs. 4-6-8". (Note the three-part notation is similar to £pounds,shillings/pence in pre-decimal British currency.) The same quantity in Devanagari was written ४꠰꠴꠸꠱꠴ (R, the ४=4 here is Devanagari, the other symbols were all used across multiple northern scripts). There were intermediate quarter-ana (and in Marharashtra, quarter-rupee) currency units, so this could also be read "4 rupāyā 1 pavalī 2 ānā 2 paisā 2 pāī". 40 rupees would be just ४०꠸, without any fractional part.[7]

5.2[8]
Eastern Nagari (Bangla and Asamiya) – pre-decimalisation (ṭākā)
(16 ānā in one ṭākā)
(20 gaṇḍā in one ānā)

The taka or ana mark was written after the numerals, for example: ৩৭৲ (37 taka); ১৫৷৶৹ (15 taka 7 ana, lit. ""). (Note that the fraction numerator symbols are different from the regular numerals, there is no separator between taka and ana.) The ganda mark was written the value, e.g. ৻৫ (lit. ganda 5), ৭৷৶৻৭ (7 taka 7 ana 7 ganda).[9]

1.0
Japanese katakana is a square version of Japanese: ルピー, the Japanese word for "rupee".It is intended for CJK Compatibility with earlier character sets.1.0

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 and References

  1. Web site: The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Tamil. . 2003.
  2. Web site: Pandey . Anshuman . L2/09-331 Proposal to Deprecate Gujarati Rupee Sign . 25 October 2019 . 7 October 2009.
  3. Web site: None.
  4. Web site: The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Gujarati. . 2003.
  5. Web site: 02117, Proposal summary form: Additional Characters for Indic Scripts . 21 March 2002.
  6. Web site: Bengali. Range: 0980–09FF. unicode.org. 24 September 2023.
  7. Web site: Pandey . Anshuman . Proposal to Encode North Indian Accounting Signs in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 . 15 May 2007.
  8. Web site: Common Indic Number Forms. unicode.org. 24 September 2023.
  9. Web site: Pandey . Anshuman . Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS . 21 May 2007.