Rupee sign


The rupee sign” is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, and formerly in India. It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence “Rs” or “Rs.”.
It is common to find a prefix before the digits denoting the rupee currency value written as “Re: 1”, or “Rs. 140”.
On 15 July 2010, India introduced a new currency symbol, the Indian rupee sign, ₹. This sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar.

Rupee code points in Unicode

Rp

Rp is the standard abbreviation for the Indonesian rupiah.

Legacy encoding

This symbol is not present as a separate code point in ISCII or PASCII.