U+09F2 "৲" Bengali Rupee Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
৲
U+09F2 "৲" Bengali Rupee Mark is a historic currency symbol used in the Bengali script, primarily representing the rupee in textual contexts from the region of Bengal, now split between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. This character dates back to pre decimalization currency systems and was employed in handwritten documents, printed materials, and currency notes to denote monetary amounts before modern replacements like the Indian rupee sign "₹" or the Bangladeshi taka symbol "৳" became standardized. Its usage has largely declined with contemporary currency reforms and digital typography, but it remains an important artifact in Unicode for preserving historical Bengali financial notation and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09F2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Rupee Mark |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09F2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09f2 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Postfix Numeric |
| Script | Bengali |
| Script Extensions | Bengali |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |