U+20A8 "₨" Rupee Sign Unicode Character
U+20A8 "₨" Rupee Sign is a currency symbol historically used to represent the rupee, a unit of currency in several South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Mauritius. This sign consists of the capital letter R with a double horizontal stroke through the upper stem, distinguishing it from the single-stroked Rupee Sign U+20B9 "₹" which was later adopted specifically for the Indian rupee in 2010. While the "₨" symbol was widely used in print and digital contexts for decades, its usage has declined in favor of country-specific rupee symbols, such as the Indian Rupee sign, though it remains valid in Unicode for representing the rupee in general historical or regional contexts. The character is encoded in the Currency Symbols block of the Unicode Standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Rupee Sign |
| Block | Currency Symbols |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ₨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ₨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x82 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20a8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Prefix Numeric |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |