How to type Russian Ruble
To type Russian Ruble (₽), press Alt + 8381 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ₽ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+20BD directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 20bd on Linux, or 20bd then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Ruble Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+20BD
- Windows
- Alt + 8381 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8381 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₽ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+20BD | RUBLE SIGN |
Symbols related to Russian Ruble
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 Russian Ruble 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 Russian Ruble 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 Russian Ruble
Unicode annotates ₽ directly. Against U+20BD the code chart carries the note “Russia”. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
How Russian Ruble 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 Russian Ruble
What is the symbol of russian ruble?
₽ is RUBLE SIGN, encoded at U+20BD. The Unicode code chart annotates it “Russia”, which is the standard's own statement of what it is for.
Every way to write Russian Ruble
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+20BD |
| Decimal | 8381 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 BD |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 BD |
| HTML entity | ₽ |
| HTML numeric | ₽ or ₽ |
| CSS | \20BD |
| JavaScript | \u20BD |
| Python | \u20BD |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%BD |
| SVG | 20BD.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 BD 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+20BD, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.