BENGALI RUPEE SIGN character

BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
U+09F3
2547
৳
৳
Sc (Currency Symbol)
ET (European Number Terminator)
N
0
Bengali
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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BENGALI RUPEE SIGN is a currency sign from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of BENGALI RUPEE SIGN is European Number Terminator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like the degree sign or currency symbols. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The European Terminator (ET) bidi class includes characters such as currency symbols ($, €, £) and other punctuation marks that typically appear alongside European numbers. ET characters are treated neutrally and ensure that symbols associated with numbers are displayed correctly in bidirectional text.

Currency Symbol (Sc) refers to characters that represent units of currency. These symbols are used in financial texts and transactions to denote money, such as the dollar sign ($), euro sign (€), and yen sign (¥).

This character belongs to the Bengali block. The Bengali block includes characters used in the Bengali script, which is used for writing Bengali, Assamese, and several other languages in eastern India and Bangladesh. The script is also an abugida, where consonants have an inherent vowel sound. This block contains characters for vowels, consonants, numerals, and various diacritical marks that modify the vowel sounds or silence the inherent vowel. Bengali is the fifth most spoken language in the world, and this script is central to its rich literary tradition, which includes works from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore..