Currency symbols · U+20B9

₹Rupee symbol

The Indian rupee sign, adopted in 2010 and added to Unicode the same year.

How to type it
Unicode
U+20B9
Alt code
Alt+8377
HTML
₹
Unicode name
Indian Rupee Sign
₹
Your font
01 — Origin

Where the Rupee symbol comes from

The rupee sign is the newest currency symbol in common use: India adopted it in July 2010 after a public competition won by Udaya Kumar, a design academic. The letterform merges the Devanagari र with a Latin R, and the two horizontal strokes echo the Indian tricolour.

Indian pricing, invoices and e-commerce. Note that it is specific to India — Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal all use the rupee but write it Rs, PKR or ₨ instead.

Worth knowing
Because the character was added to Unicode in 2010, older fonts and printers predate it entirely and fall back to a box or to ₨.
02 — Codes

Rupee symbol codes

Copy whichever form your tool expects. The character behind them does not change.

03 — How to type

How to type ₹ on any keyboard

Four ways, depending on what you are working in.

Windows
Hold Alt and type 8377 on the numeric keypad, then release. Without a keypad, use the Character Map app (search “charmap”).
Mac
Press Control + Command + Space to open the character viewer, then search “rupee”. Double-click to insert.
Phone
There is no shortcut on a phone keyboard. Tap the symbol at the top of this page, then long-press in any text field and choose Paste.
Web and code
In HTML write ₹ or ₹. In CSS content: "\20B9". Make sure the page is served as UTF-8 and the raw character works too.
04 — Font support

Will ₹ actually show up?

We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.

42% 62 of 147 fonts

Check before you rely on it. Plenty of fonts skip this character. It works in system UI and common documents, but a designed font may not carry it.

05 — Similar

Symbols people confuse with ₹

Close enough to be mistaken for it, and still a different code point every time.

06 — Related

Other currency symbols

Relatives of this character. Each has its own page with origin, typing and font coverage.

¢ Cent symbolIn 97% of system fonts € Euro symbolIn 94% of system fonts $ Dollar symbolIn 97% of system fonts £ Pound symbolIn 97% of system fonts ¥ Yen symbolIn 98% of system fonts
07 — Same block

Currency symbols

Every currency sign, from the euro to the rupee and the bitcoin.

All currency symbols →
08 — FAQ

Rupee symbol — questions

How do I type the Rupee symbol?
On Windows hold Alt and type 8377 on the numeric keypad. On Mac open the character viewer with Control + Command + Space and search “Rupee”. Or just tap the symbol on this page — it goes straight to your clipboard.
What is the HTML code for ₹?
Write it as ₹ or ₹ in HTML, \20B9 in CSS content, and \u20B9 in JavaScript. All four produce the same character.
Is ₹ an emoji?
No. ₹ is a text character — it takes the colour of the text around it and works in usernames, filenames and documents. An emoji is replaced by a colour picture and is sometimes stripped by forms and systems.
Why does ₹ show as a box on some devices?
Because that font has no drawing for this character. We checked 147 fonts on a normal machine and 62 of them include it — which is why boxes are common with this one. The character itself is always correct; only the drawing is missing.