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Bangladeshi taka sign

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৳
Bangladeshi taka sign
In UnicodeU+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
Currency
CurrencyBangladeshi Taka
Related
See alsoU+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
(Bangladesh, and India)
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The Bangladeshi taka sign (৳) is the currency symbol for the Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217: BDT), the official currency of Bangladesh. The sign has been a part of unicode since version 1.0 owing to usage in historical texts.[1] The international three-letter currency code for the Bangladeshi taka is BDT.[2]

Design

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The design is morphed from the Bangla letter "ট" of the word "টাকা", meaning money.

Unicode

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The symbol has been present from the first version of unicode as the fourth Bengali currency symbol.[3]

On systems running Ubuntu, most other Linux distributions and ChromeOS, the symbol may be typed using Ctrl+⇧ Shift+u 09F3Space (or simply AltGr+4 if the 'Bengali' language setting is used).

Character mappings

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Character information
Preview ৳
Unicode name BANGLADESHI TAKA SIGN
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 2547 U+09F3
UTF-8 224 167 179 E0 A7 B3
Numeric character reference ৳ ৳

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Unicode Consortium, ed. (1991). The Unicode standard: worldwide character encoding (Version 1.0 ed.). Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. ISBN 978-0-201-56788-5.
  2. ^ "List one: Currency, fund and precious metal codes". ISO 4217 Maintenance Agency. 29 August 2018. Archived from the original (XLS) on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Unicode Currency Chart" (PDF). Unicode.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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