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৳

bengali rupee sign

Bengali Rupee Sign

৳ is the taka sign, the currency symbol of Bangladesh: ৳500 means 500 taka (code BDT, often written Tk). Its official name says “rupee” because in Bengali the word taka has long meant both money and the rupee. Prices in India use instead.

Text symbol

What ৳ means

Bangladesh's taka, as a rule. You'll typically see it on price tags, receipts, shop websites and bank apps from Bangladesh, usually right before the amount: ৳250 or ৳২৫০ with Bengali digits. In English text the same money is often written Tk 250 or BDT 250, BDT being the international currency code.

The name is older than the country. টাকা (taka) comes from Sanskrit ṭaṅka, a silver coin, and in Bengali it is simply the word for money. Bengali speakers in India call the rupee taka too, which is why the Unicode name, given in 1993, reads “Bengali rupee sign”. When they write prices, though, Indians use .

What does it mean when someone sends ৳ with a number?

They're giving a price or an amount in taka. It can show up when someone quotes what something costs in Bangladesh, asks for a payment or talks about money sent home. If the conversation is about India and you're unsure whether they mean rupees, ask: in speech, Bengali speakers use taka for both.

A plain currency sign, neutral as or .

Don't use ৳ for Indian prices; most readers will take it as Bangladeshi taka.

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

The amount is in Bangladeshi taka.

Don't confuse it with

₹

Indian Rupee Sign

₹ is India's rupee sign, with two top bars; ৳ is Bangladesh's taka.

৲

Bengali Rupee Mark

৲ is the old Bengali rupee mark from pre-decimal accounts, not today's currency sign.

Combination ideas

500 taka, written with Bengali digits.

500 taka, written with Western digits.

Bangladeshi taka, the national currency.

Worth knowing

Bangladesh adopted the taka as its currency in 1972, the year after independence, replacing the Pakistani rupee.

Questions people ask

Is the taka the same as the rupee?

No. The taka is Bangladesh's currency and the rupee is India's. They share a word in Bengali, where taka also means rupee, but they are different money with different values.

Should I write ৳ or Tk?

Either works. ৳ is common in Bengali text and on price tags; Tk or BDT is common in English, and BDT is the code banks use.

Collections with ৳

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How to type or find ৳

Also called: Taka sign · Bangladeshi taka sign · Bangla taka sign
Search it as: taka · BDT · Tk · Bangladesh currency · টাকা · rupee · ৳
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 09F3, then AltX to get ৳.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “bengali rupee sign”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 09f3, then Enter or Space.

HTML

৳

CSS

\09F3

Windows (Word)

Type 09F3, then press AltX.

Linux (GNOME)

Press CtrlShiftU, type 9f3, then Enter or Space; other desktops may differ.

Bengali keyboards

Some Bengali layouts on phones and computers include ৳ among their symbols; availability varies by layout.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

৳

HTML hex

৳

CSS content

content: "\09F3";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E0%A7%B3

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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