U+20B9 "₹" Indian Rupee Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₹
U+20B9 "₹" Indian Rupee Sign is a currency symbol that was officially added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.0 in 2010, representing the Indian rupee. It was designed to blend the Devanagari consonant "र" (ra) with the Latin capital letter "R," and a double horizontal line at the top evokes the Indian tricolor flag. This sign replaced earlier informal representations like "Rs." and provides a distinct, globally recognized symbol for India's currency in digital text, financial documents, and software systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20B9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Indian Rupee Sign |
| Block | Currency Symbols |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ₹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ₹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x82 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20b9 |
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 | Prefix Numeric |
| 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 |