Ruble sign
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Ruble sign | |
In Unicode | U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN |
Currency | |
Currency | Russian ruble |
Different from | |
Different from | ₱ (Philippine peso sign) |
Category |
The ruble sign, ₽, is the
In Russian orthography, the sign almost always follows the number (the monetary value), and in many cases there is a space between the two. In English orthography, it usually precedes the number.
History
In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a symbol for the Russian ruble consisting of lower case Cyrillic letters — a rotated р on a у. In the 20th century р. was used to abbreviate the ruble.
The debates about adopting a national currency symbol for the Russian ruble began nearly from the start of
In 2007, a group of Russian design bureaus and studios proposed to use ₽, the stroked Cyrillic letter Р to represent the ruble. Soon after, many electronic retailers, restaurants and cafés started to use the sign unofficially. It became very popular and was widely used as a de facto standard.
In November 2013, the Central Bank of Russia finally decided to adopt a national currency sign. It placed a public poll on its website with five pre-chosen options.
The design provided earlier by the design community that was informally yet widely used (₽) was on the poll's list and got the most votes. On 11 December 2013, ₽ was approved as the official sign for the Russian Federation's ruble.[1]
Coding
The international three-letter code (according to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard ISO 4217) for the ruble is RUB. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN.
It can be entered on a
.Other uses of the symbol
The cryptocurrency
Notes
- alveolar trill/r/, roughly like the "rolled" sound like the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨r⟩ in "curd".