₹

₹ U+20B9, ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN ← ₸ [U+20B8] Currency Symbols ₺ → [U+20BA]

Translingual

Etymology

Blend of र (“derived from Hindi रुपया (rupyā)”) +‎ R (“derived from English rupee”), coined by Indian academic and designer Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam in 2010.

Symbol

₹

1. The symbol representing the Indian rupee.
   • 2025 September 8, Sanjay Vijayakumar, “Tamil Nadu second biggest market for small business credit: study”, in The Hindu‎^[1] (in English), archived from the original on 11 September 2025:

     Tamil Nadu is the second biggest market for small business credit, accounting for 9.3% of the national total, as per a joint report by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and credit bureau CRIF High Mark. As of June 30, 2025, Tamil Nadu had an outstanding small business credit portfolio of about ₹4.21 lakh crore, up 15.7% from ₹3.64 lakh crore as of June 30 2024, the report said. Maharashtra remained the largest market with ₹6.0 lakh crore in outstanding credit, while Tamil Nadu, Gujarat (₹3.69 lakh crore), Uttar Pradesh (₹3.61 lakh crore), and Karnataka (₹3.18 lakh crore) round out the top five by portfolio size. Uttar Pradesh registered highest outstanding portfolio growth of 20.7% on a year-on-year basis. The report defines "Small Business" as those businesses that have an aggregated credit exposure not exceeding ₹5 crore from the formal lending system.

Usage notes

When used as a currency symbol, ₹ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, “₹5” is read as “five rupees”, not “rupees five” unlike the usage in languages such as Hindi: “5₹”.

See also

Currency signs

• ¤ – currency wildcard
• ؋ – afghani
• ฿ – baht
• ₿ – bitcoin
• ¢ – cent
• ₡ – colón
• ₵ – cedi
• – cifrão
• – Emirati dirham
• $ – dollar
• ₫ – dong
• ֏ – dram
• € – euro
• ƒ – florin, guilder, gulden
• ₣ – franc
• ₲ – guarani
• ₴ – hryvnia
• - Indian paisa
• ₭ – kip
• ₾ – lari
• ₺ – Turkish lira
• ₼ – manat
• ₦ – naira
• ₱ – Philippine peso
• £ – pound
• ﷼ – Iranian rial
• – Omani rial
• ⃁ – Saudi riyal
• ៛ – riel
• ₽ – Russian ruble
• - Belarusian ruble
• ₨ – rupee
• ₹ – Indian rupee
• – rufiyaa
• ₪ – new shekel
• ⃀ – Kyrgyzstani som
• ₸ – tenge
• ₮ – tugrik, tether
• ₩ – won
• ¥ – yen, yuan

Language-specific currency signs

• ৳ – Bengali taka sign
• ৲ – Bengali rupee sign
• ৹ – Bengali ana sign
• ৻ – Bengali ganda sign
• રૂ૰ – Gujarati rupee sign
• ꠸ – North Indic rupee sign
• रू – Nepali rupee sign
• 𞱱 – Pakistani rupee sign
• රු – Sinhala rupee sign
• ௹ – Tamil rupee sign
• 𞲰 – Urdu rupee sign
• 𞋿 (𞋿) – Wancho rupee sign
• 円 – yen (in Japanese)
• 元 – yuan (in Chinese)
• 圓 / 圆 – yuan (in Chinese)

Formerly used currency signs

• 𐆚 – Roman as
• ₳ – austral
• ₠ – European Currency Unit
• ₢ – cruzeiro
• 𐆖 – Roman denarius
• ₯ – drachma
• ₤ - Italian lira
• ₶ – livre tournois
• ℳ – mark
• ₥ – mill
• ₻ - Nordic mark
• ₧ – peseta
• ₰ – pfennig
• ℛ︁ℳ︁ – reichsmark
• 𐆘 – Roman sesterce
• ₷ – spesmilo
• – old Israeli shekel