

The designer of Indian rupee symbol was born in 1978 in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu, India. Continue reading for more details on this symbol.
#Rupee sign code#
Its HTML code is and you can type it on your keyboard by pressing Alt + 8377 (in MS Word for Windows Only). In Unicode, the Indian Rupee Symbol is the character at code point U+020B9. Udaya Kumar is the person behind the design of rupees symbol, He is an Associate professor and Head of Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. Indian Rupee currency sign is used to denote the official currency symbol of India. Since 15 July 2020, the Unicode character U+20B9 ₹ (HTML ₹) has been started to use as Unicode character for the Indian rupee sign. The Indian government made an announcement to create a sign for the Indian rupee on 5 March 2009 through a campaign that any Indian can design and propose the symbol depending on individuals creativity. No one was aware about this fancy rupee symbol before the announcement made by the Indian government on 15 July 2010.

It permitted the opening of vostro accounts by Indian banks to facilitate settlement of transactions in Rupee. Rupee Symbol History & Adoption of Rupee Symbol The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last July introduced Rupee payments for global trade, especially with Russia that was forced out of the global payments network following its invasion of Ukraine. In this method, we can insert rupee symbol from the Symbols option in Excel. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide. Other Asian countries circulating rupee currencies are still using the abbreviation Rs for their currency as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan including all the countries over the Asia.įor Indians it was the great day, when it was announced that the rupee symbol will be adopted and followed by the all countries since 15 July 2010. Download Indian Rupee Symbol stock photos. Before adopting ₹ as rupees symbol the abbreviation INR, RS and Re were commonly used for denoting Indian currency.
