How to type Turkish Lira
To type Turkish Lira (₺), press Alt + 8378 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+20BA directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 20ba on Linux, or 20ba then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Turkish Lira Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+20BA
- Windows
- Alt + 8378 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8378 | 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+20BA | TURKISH LIRA SIGN |
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 Unicode says about Turkish Lira
Unicode annotates ₺ directly. Against U+20BA the code chart carries the note “Official lira currency sign for Turkey”. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
How Turkish Lira 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.
Every way to write Turkish Lira
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+20BA |
| Decimal | 8378 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 BA |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 BA |
| HTML entity | ₺ |
| HTML numeric | ₺ or ₺ |
| CSS | \20BA |
| JavaScript | \u20BA |
| Python | \u20BA |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%BA |
| SVG | 20BA.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 BA 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+20BA, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.