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{{Short description|Overview of symbols used to represent currency in rupee-using countries}}
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{{Infobox currency sign
|mark=₨ 
|unicode={{unichar|20A8|Rupee sign|html=}}
|currency = [[Finance:Mauritian rupee|Mauritian rupee]]<br />[[Finance:Nepalese rupee|Nepalese rupee]]<br />[[Finance:Pakistani rupee|Pakistani rupee]]<br />[[Finance:Seychellois rupee|Seychellois rupee]]<br />Sri Lankan rupee<br />
|different from=
{{unichar|09F3|BENGALI RUPEE SIGN}} (Bangladeshi taka) <br /> 
{{unichar|20B9|Indian rupee sign|html=}} (Indian rupee) <br />
{{unichar|0BF9|TAMIL RUPEE SIGN}} (Sri Lankan rupee alternative sign)
}}
The rupee sign "'''₨'''" is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in [[Finance:Pakistani rupee|Pakistan]], Sri Lanka, [[Finance:Nepalese rupee|Nepal]], [[Finance:Mauritian rupee|Mauritius]], [[Finance:Seychellois rupee|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 [[Social:Orthographic ligature|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 [[Finance:Indian rupee sign|Indian rupee sign]], {{char|₹}}. 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==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|+ Unicode [[Code point|code point]]s for rupee and related currency
! Script !! Symbol in Unicode
!Unicode version{{efn|Version of Unicode standard where the symbol was first included.}}
|-
| General || {{unichar|20A8|RUPEE SIGN}}
|1.0
|-
| General || {{unichar|20B9|INDIAN RUPEE SIGN}}
|6.0
|-
| [[Social:Tamil language|Tamil]] || {{unichar|0BF9|TAMIL RUPEE SIGN}}.{{efn|Also code 0x96 in TAM (Tamil Monolingual encoding),<ref name="tn18">{{cite web |last1=Chellappan |first1=P. |title=TAM to Unicode conversion |url=http://unicode.org/notes/tn18/tam_to_unicode.pdf |accessdate=25 October 2019}}</ref> and code E106 in [[TACE16]] ([[Tamil All Character Encoding]]).<ref>{{cite web |author1=P.W.C. Davidar |title=Standards Prescribed for 16-bit coding of Tamil Script |url=http://unicode.org/L2/L2010/10318-tamil-nadu.pdf |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |accessdate=25 October 2019 |date=23 June 2010}}</ref>}} Compare ரூ ''rū'', which is also used.{{efn|"...the syllable ரூ seen for rupee instead of (the already encoded) ௹."<ref name=Sharma2017 />}}{{efn|The shape at the end of the "tail" is an abbreviation mark that is also used in some other symbols. "In passing, one notes that some sources given a lesser known alternate glyph for rupee where the Tamil abbreviation mark <!-- PUA character U+E073, unk in enwiki  --> is joined with the ரூ (rū, for rūpāy) below the base and not above (as currently shown in the code chart)."<ref name=Sharma2017>{{cite web |last1=Sharma |first1=Shriramana |title=Proposal to encode Tamil fractions and symbols |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12231-tamil-fractions-symbols-proposal.pdf |pages=14–15 |date=12 July 2017}}</ref>}}
|4.0<ref>{{cite web |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Tamil. |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-4.0/U40-0B80.pdf |date=2003}}</ref>
|-
| [[Social:Gujarati language|Gujarati]] 
| {{unichar|0AF1|GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN}}
It has been proposed that this code should be deprecated,<ref name="Pandey2009">{{cite web |last1=Pandey |first1=Anshuman |title=L2/09-331 Proposal to Deprecate Gujarati Rupee Sign |url=https://unicode.org/L2/L2009/09331-gujarati-rupee-sign-deprec.pdf |accessdate=25 October 2019 |date=7 October 2009}}</ref> and the following sequence used instead:
Unicode Names List notes the latter is "preferred spelling"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_0A80.html|title = None}}</ref>
|4.0<ref>{{cite web |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Delta code chart for Gujarati. |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-4.0/U40-0A80.pdf |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=02117, Proposal summary form: Additional Characters for Indic Scripts |url=http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02117-indic.pdf |date=21 March 2002}}</ref>
|-
| Bengali || {{unichar|09F3|BENGALI RUPEE SIGN}}, synonym "Bangladeshi taka".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf |title=Bengali. Range: 0980–09FF|website=unicode.org|access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>  Compare ট (''ṭô'') রু (''ru.'') and ৳ are also used in Bangla script outside Bangladesh for the Indian rupee/taka.<ref name=Pandey2007ganda />
|1.0
|-
| North Indic (pre-decimalisation) || {{unichar|A838|NORTH INDIC RUPEE MARK}}
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 ({{frac|4|1|4}}{{frac|2|16}}R{{frac|2|4}}{{frac|2|12}}, 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.
<ref name="Pandey2007">{{cite web |last1=Pandey |first1=Anshuman |title=Proposal to Encode North Indian Accounting Signs in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 |url=http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3312.pdf |date=15 May 2007}}</ref>
|5.2<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-5.2/U52-A830.pdf |title=Common Indic Number Forms|website=unicode.org|access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>
|-
| Eastern Nagari (Bangla and Asamiya) – pre-decimalisation <!-- probably applies to Assamese also? but source only mentions Bengali. Unicode "Bengali" block covers Bengali, Assamese and Eastern Nagari. -->
| {{unichar|09F2|BENGALI RUPEE MARK}} (''ṭākā'') <br />{{unichar|09F9|BENGALI CURRENCY DENOMINATOR SIXTEEN}} (16 ''ānā'' in one ''ṭākā'') <br />{{unichar|09FB|BENGALI GANDA MARK}} (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. "{{frac|15|4+3|16}}"). (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 {{em|before}} the value, e.g. ৻৫ (lit. ''ganda'' 5), ৭৷৶৻৭ (7 ''taka'' 7 ''ana'' 7 ''ganda'').<ref name=Pandey2007ganda>{{cite web |last1=Pandey |first1=Anshuman |title=Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS |url=http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07192-bengali-ganda.pdf |date=21 May 2007}}</ref>
|1.0
|}

==Rp==
Rp is the standard abbreviation for the [[Finance:Indonesian rupiah|Indonesian rupiah]].

==Legacy encoding==
This symbol is not present as a separate code point in ISCII or PASCII.

==Notes==
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==References==
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[[Category:Currency symbols]]

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