U+20A8 Rupee Sign
U+20A8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
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
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 |
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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
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RUPEE SIGN | |
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Currency Symbols | |
Currency Symbol | |
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