U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
8360
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+20A8, officially named RUPEE SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Currency Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Currency Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8360 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 82 A8 Copied!
UTF-16 20 A8 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 A8 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%82%A8 Copied!
HTML hex reference ₨ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'20A8' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u20A8 Copied!
C and C++ \u20a8 Copied!
C# \u20a8 Copied!
CSS \0020A8 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8360) Copied!
Go \u20a8 Copied!
JavaScript \u20A8 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{20a8} Copied!
JSON \u20A8 Copied!
Java \u20A8 Copied!
Lua \u{20A8} Copied!
Matlab char(8360) Copied!
Perl \x{20A8} Copied!
PHP \u{20a8} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\20A8' Copied!
PowerShell `u{20A8} Copied!
Python \u20a8 Copied!
Ruby \u{20a8} Copied!
Rust \u{20a8} Copied!