What ₾ means
It labels an amount in Georgian lari.
The National Bank of Georgia opened a design competition in 2013 and presented the chosen sign publicly in 2014. Malkhaz Shvelidze won with a design reshaping the Georgian letter ლ as a currency mark.
The sign was intended as a compact mark for handwriting, printed prices, and computer text. The National Bank also presented it as a way to popularize the lari and build confidence in the currency.
Why does ₾ carry Georgian identity?
Its letterform brings Georgian writing into everyday price notation.
In 2024, an article marking the sign's tenth anniversary described it as financial notation and a marker of Georgian identity and heritage.
When someone sends ₾, read it as money
In a message, ₾ labels a price, budget, payment, or other amount as Georgian lari.
A formal financial sign that connects a price in lari with Georgian script and monetary identity.
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3Questions people ask
1Should the two strokes stay separate?
Yes. They are separate parts of the intended design. Unicode's proposal for the sign tells fonts to preserve both; joining them changes the intended form.
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How to type or find ₾
- Also called
- Georgian lari symbol
- Search it as
- lari · GEL · Georgian lari · lari symbol · Georgian currency
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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