How to type Indian Rupee
To type Indian Rupee (₹), press Alt + 8377 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + Shift + 4 on Mac, or write ₹ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+20B9 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 20b9 on Linux, or 20b9 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Indian Rupee Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+20B9
- Windows
- Alt + 8377 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8377 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | Option + Shift + 4 | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₹ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+20B9 | INDIAN RUPEE SIGN |
Symbols related to Indian Rupee
These are filed under currency in CLDR, the keyword list Unicode publishes alongside the names.
Other currency symbols
₹ lives in the Currency Symbols block (U+20A0-U+20CF), currency signs added after Latin-1, including the euro. Within Unicode it is classified as Sc, a currency symbol. Formatting libraries recognise it when rendering money. Its bidirectional class makes it a European number terminator, so it sits beside a number without breaking its direction.
What Indian Rupee is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ₹ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and it is currency. That word is what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Indian Rupee is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches it as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Indian Rupee
Unicode annotates ₹ directly. Against U+20B9 the code chart carries the note “Official rupee currency sign for India”. It adds: contrasts with script-specific rupee signs and abbreviations. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
The code chart points from ₹ to devanagari letter ra (U+0930). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Indian Rupee looks nearly right but not quite.
How Indian Rupee behaves in software
₹ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Indian Rupee
What is the symbol for rupees?
₹ is INDIAN RUPEE SIGN, encoded at U+20B9. The Unicode code chart annotates it “Official rupee currency sign for India”, which is the standard's own statement of what it is for. It is distinct from devanagari letter ra (U+0930), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
Every way to write Indian Rupee
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+20B9 |
| Decimal | 8377 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 B9 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 B9 |
| HTML entity | ₹ |
| HTML numeric | ₹ or ₹ |
| CSS | \20B9 |
| JavaScript | \u20B9 |
| Python | \u20B9 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%B9 |
| SVG | 20B9.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ₹ arrives as ₹
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 82 B9 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ₹. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+20B9, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.