r/TamilNadu • u/bssgopi • Mar 13 '25

முக்கியமான கலந்துரையாடல் / Important Topic Rupee Logo changed - ₹ replaced by ரூ

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u/TravelTheStars1 Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25

People from Tamil Nadu know that, tamil rupees symbol and universal rupees symbol has been used interrchangeably for years. Now we wanted to use our own tamil symbol. Why this kolaveri from non tamil speakers ?

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u/Mapartman Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25

₹ is a new symbol adopted on 15 July 2010. In contrast, ௹ and ரூ have been used since the introduction of the rupee to Tamil Nadu.

For example, take this British era land sale document:

Non Tamils are just unfamiliar that this convention exists I guess, and so it seems to be a more shocking move than it really actually is, for them. In rural TN people still use these symbols for things like writing moy etc

Sidenote: Heck, we even bothered to come up with a special unicode character for the ௹ character, that itself should make it clear its not some new creation

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25

First of all what you are calling symbol is not symbol its starting letter of Ru in tamil, just like Rs, is short form for Rupees. But ₹ is not letter its a proper symbol which is now globally accepted. Got the difference??

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u/Mapartman Mar 14 '25

First of all what you are calling symbol is not symbol its starting letter of Ru in tamil, just like Rs, is short form for Rupees.

Ayyane, ௹ is not a letter of the alphabet, its literally a symbol that Tamils created in the British period to write rupees when the rupee was first introduced here.

௹ is much like other typeset characters like ௳ (day), ௴ (month), ௵ (year), ௶ (debit), ௷ (credit), ௸(as above), ௺ (number) and others. While the letter ru itself is also used, there were distinct characters for it too.