U+20BE "₾" Lari Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₾
U+20BE "₾" Lari Sign is the official currency symbol for the Georgian lari, which has been the national currency of Georgia since 1995. The symbol was designed to be a stylized representation of the Georgian letter "ლ" (lasi), the first letter of the word for lari in the Georgian script. Introduced into Unicode in 2014 as part of version 7.0, it enables digital representation and typing of the currency in modern computing systems. The sign is used primarily in Georgian commerce and financial contexts to denote prices and monetary values.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20BE |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Lari 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20be |
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 | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |