Ruble Symbol

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Ruble Symbol

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12 ruble signs and codes. Tap any value to copy it.

12 ruble signs and codes. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	HTML	LaTeX
	U+20BD. Russia's currency sign since 11 December 2013: the Cyrillic capital Р, first letter of рубль, with a horizontal stroke. Compose, P, = with a Compose key; no Alt code and no HTML name.
	Made of the digits 100, U+00A0 and U+20BD. The order used in Russia: the amount, a space, the sign. The space here is a no-break space, so the two never part at a line end.
	Made of U+20BD and the digits 100. Outside Russia the sign may lead the amount with nothing between them.
	The ISO 4217 code of the Russian ruble since the redenomination of 1998. The code before it was RUR.
	Made of U+0440, U+0443, U+0431 and a period: the Cyrillic abbreviation that served before the sign existed, in the Soviet Union and the later Russian Empire.
	U+0420. The letter the sign is built on. It is the Cyrillic er, which sounds like r and only looks like the Latin P.
	The ISO 4217 code of the Belarusian ruble, the third ruble of Belarus, brought in during July 2016.
	U+20B1. The money sign of the Philippines: a Latin P with two horizontal strokes. A different character that is easily taken for ₽.
	U+A750. A medieval abbreviation letter: P whose stroke crosses the tail below the bowl. Unicode points from it to the ruble sign.
	U+2C63. A capital P with a stroke through its bowl, a letter of the extended Latin alphabet whose small form is ᵽ.
	U+0584. A small letter of the Armenian alphabet. The ruble design was said to resemble it when it began to circulate in 2007.
	U+2CE8. The staurogram, a combination of the Greek letters tau and rho, kept in the Coptic block. Its shape is a P on a crossbar, and it has nothing to do with money.

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How it works

The ruble symbol is ₽, Ruble sign, U+20BD: the Cyrillic capital Р, first letter of рубль, with a horizontal stroke. It is Russia's currency sign, approved in December 2013 and in Unicode since 2014.

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Where the sign goes

Russia writes the ruble sign after the amount and a space: 100 ₽. Outside Russia it may come first with no space: ₽100. The spaced row uses a no-break space, so the number and the sign stay on one line.

Rouble, RUB and руб.

Rouble is a second spelling of the same currency name. The ruble currency code is RUB. Before the sign there was no official Russian money symbol, and amounts were written with abbreviations such as руб.

₱, the Philippine peso sign, is a P with two strokes and a different character.
The Belarusian ruble has the code BYN; its own sign has no character in Unicode.

Questions and answers

What is the Russian ruble symbol?

₽, Ruble sign, U+20BD. Its base is the Cyrillic capital letter Р, which begins the word ruble, and the central bank of Russia approved the design on 11 December 2013.

Is there a ruble alt code?

No. ₽ joined Unicode in version 7.0 in 2014, and neither Alt code table holds it, so no roubles alt code exists either. No key of the U.S. keyboard types it. With a Compose key: Compose, P, =. In a web page: ₽.

What was the Soviet ruble symbol?

It had none of its own. Soviet money was written руб or р in Cyrillic and Rbl or R in Latin letters. An earlier ruble mark, used from the 16th to the 18th century, had fallen out of use.

What is the name and symbol of Russia's currency?

The name is the ruble, also spelled rouble, and the symbol is ₽. The older Russian currency sign in everyday writing was the abbreviation руб. after the number.

All 12 ruble signs and codes

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RUB, the code of the Russian ruble The ISO 4217 code of the Russian ruble since the redenomination of 1998. The code before it was RUR.
Rub. in Cyrillic letters Made of U+0440, U+0443, U+0431 and a period: the Cyrillic abbreviation that served before the sign existed, in the Soviet Union and the later Russian Empire.
Ruble sign U+20BD. Russia's currency sign since 11 December 2013: the Cyrillic capital Р, first letter of рубль, with a horizontal stroke. Compose, P, = with a Compose key; no Alt code and no HTML name.
Ruble sign after the amount Made of the digits 100, U+00A0 and U+20BD. The order used in Russia: the amount, a space, the sign. The space here is a no-break space, so the two never part at a line end.
Ruble sign before the amount Made of U+20BD and the digits 100. Outside Russia the sign may lead the amount with nothing between them.

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BYN, the code of the Belarusian ruble The ISO 4217 code of the Belarusian ruble, the third ruble of Belarus, brought in during July 2016.
Cyrillic capital letter er U+0420. The letter the sign is built on. It is the Cyrillic er, which sounds like r and only looks like the Latin P.

Not a ruble sign 5

Armenian small letter keh U+0584. A small letter of the Armenian alphabet. The ruble design was said to resemble it when it began to circulate in 2007.
Coptic symbol tau ro U+2CE8. The staurogram, a combination of the Greek letters tau and rho, kept in the Coptic block. Its shape is a P on a crossbar, and it has nothing to do with money.
Latin capital letter p with stroke U+2C63. A capital P with a stroke through its bowl, a letter of the extended Latin alphabet whose small form is ᵽ.
Latin capital letter p with stroke through descender U+A750. A medieval abbreviation letter: P whose stroke crosses the tail below the bowl. Unicode points from it to the ruble sign.
Peso sign U+20B1. The money sign of the Philippines: a Latin P with two horizontal strokes. A different character that is easily taken for ₽.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case. Notes that begin Unicode's note quote NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT), the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT). Option keys are those of the U.S. keyboard layout as CLDR records it (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-42/keyboards/osx/en-t-k0-osx.xml); other layouts differ. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx, ltoutenc.dtx or utf8ienc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb source (https://ctan.org/pkg/amsfonts) defines them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). Compose sequences are from the X.org en_US.UTF-8 Compose file (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre). One character has RUBLE in its Unicode name, found by a search of UnicodeData.txt. The letter the sign is based on, the day it was approved, where it stands beside an amount, the abbreviations used before it and the characters it is mistaken for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble_sign. The codes RUB and RUR and the spelling rouble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_ruble; the Soviet abbreviations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble; the code BYN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_ruble and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217; the staurogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogram. All read on 2026-10-03 and restated in this site's own words. The made rows state no price. The order and the look-alikes are this site's own choice. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)