Lari Symbol

Copy ₾, the lari sign of Georgia, an amount with it, the code GEL or the letter ლ behind it.

Lari Symbol

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9 lari signs and codes. Tap any value to copy it.

9 lari signs and codes. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
CharacterNameCode pointHTML
U+20BE. Georgia's money sign, approved in July 2014 and in Unicode since version 8.0 (2015). It is the letter ლ with two upright lines through its arch.
Made of the digits 100, U+00A0 and U+20BE. The National Bank of Georgia's rule: the sign follows the number, a small gap between them.
Made of U+20BE and the digits 100. The bank's exception, for text that is not Georgian and puts money signs first.
The ISO 4217 code: GE is the country code of Georgia and L stands for lari.
U+10DA. The letter the sign is built on: the l of the Mkhedruli script, which starts the word ლარი. Written for the lari where ₾ is missing.

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How it works

The lari symbol is ₾, U+20BE, the money sign of Georgia. Georgia's national bank approved it in July 2014, and Unicode added it in version 8.0, of June 2015.

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A letter with two lines

₾ is built on ლ, the letter las of the Georgian Mkhedruli script and the first letter of ლარი. The letter is cut down to one arch, two upright parallel lines cross the top of it, and its leg becomes a level line. The bank asks that the two lines stay clearly apart, so the sign is not read as the letter ღ.

Before or after the number

The bank's rule is after: the amount, a small gap, the sign, as in 100 ₾. In text that is not Georgian and sets money signs first, it may lead: ₾100. HTML has no name for it, only ₾ or ₾, and neither Alt code table holds it.

  • One lari is 100 tetri, თეთრი, a name that means white.

Questions and answers

What is the lari symbol?

₾, Lari sign, U+20BE, in the Currency Symbols block of Unicode, whose note on it is the single word Georgia. It stands for the Georgian lari, coded GEL.

What does the word lari mean?

It is an old Georgian word for a hoard or property. The currency took the name in 1995 and got a sign of its own in 2014.

Why does ₾ show as an empty box?

No font on the device holds it. The sign dates from Unicode 8.0, of 2015, so older fonts lack it. The plain letter ლ, far older in Unicode, is the usual stand-in.

All 9 lari signs and codes

Start here 5

  • GEL, the code of the lari The ISO 4217 code: GE is the country code of Georgia and L stands for lari.
  • Georgian letter las U+10DA. The letter the sign is built on: the l of the Mkhedruli script, which starts the word ლარი. Written for the lari where ₾ is missing.
  • Lari sign U+20BE. Georgia's money sign, approved in July 2014 and in Unicode since version 8.0 (2015). It is the letter ლ with two upright lines through its arch.
  • Lari sign after the amount Made of the digits 100, U+00A0 and U+20BE. The National Bank of Georgia's rule: the sign follows the number, a small gap between them.
  • Lari sign before the amount Made of U+20BE and the digits 100. The bank's exception, for text that is not Georgian and puts money signs first.

In Georgian letters 1

  • Lari, the Georgian word Made of U+10DA, U+10D0, U+10E0 and U+10D8. An old Georgian word for a hoard or property.

In Latin letters 1

  • GEK, the code of the kuponi The code of the coupon money that came before. On 2 October 1995 one lari replaced a million kuponi.

Letters, not money 2

  • Georgian letter ghan U+10E6. The letter the bank's manual warns of: the sign keeps two clearly separate lines so that nobody takes it for this one.
  • Georgian Mtavruli capital letter las U+1C9A. The same letter in the Mtavruli style, added in Unicode 11.0 (2018). A device with no font for it draws an empty box.

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