Indian rupee sign ₹

India adopted the ₹ in 2010 after a public design competition. The winning design, by D. Udaya Kumar, combines the Devanagari letter र (ra) with the Latin capital R. The two horizontal lines at the top are usually described as echoing the Indian flag and the equals sign.

Before 2010, amounts were written as Rs. 500 or Rs 500, and you will still see that form in older documents and informal writing. Very old fonts that predate the sign may show an empty box instead of ₹.

In international contexts, such as invoices, price comparisons or data feeds, use the ISO code INR alongside or instead of the symbol.

• Symbol first: ₹500, ₹1,250, ₹12.50.
• Paise: the rupee divides into 100 paise.
• Indian digit grouping: above a thousand, Indian English groups digits in twos. ₹1,00,000 is one lakh (100,000), and ₹1,00,00,000 is one crore (10 million). For US readers, use international grouping (₹100,000) or give both.
• Words: “₹2.5 lakh” and “₹3 crore” are standard in Indian news writing.

Look-alikes: ₨ is the older generic rupee sign, a ligature of Rs. The Pakistani and Sri Lankan rupees are commonly written with Rs rather than ₹. ₽ is the Russian ruble sign; it shares a P-like shape but means a different currency.

US keyboards have no rupee key, and the US Mac layout has no Option shortcut for it.

• Windows: in Word, use the Alt+X code from the table above. Elsewhere, copy it from this page.
• Mac: Control+Command+Space opens the Character Viewer; search “rupee.”
• Phones: copy it once and save a text replacement such as “inr” → ₹ in your keyboard settings.
• LaTeX: with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, type ₹ directly when your font includes it.
• Websites: format prices with the currency code INR in your code, and let the browser or your formatting library add the symbol.