Designation of the ruble as a currency. Ruble symbol: symbol on the keyboard

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In our time, everyone knows what the designation of the ruble looks like. You can see the symbol of this currency in the article. In it, we will talk not only about its history. We will also tell you about how to enter the ruble symbol in the text input field. The symbol on the keyboard, of course, is not specified, but there are still ways to enter it. In this article, we'll take a look at them all.

History of the origin of the symbol

Initially, of course, it is worth paying attention to the history of the symbol. The designation of the ruble as a currency appeared in the distant thirteenth century. And almost immediately there was a need to reduce it. There were a lot of variations, but the first known version that became known to us was a combination of two letters - "p" and "y". One thing can be said unequivocally: this abbreviation appeared as a result of the evolution of the then written language in Russian. By the way, this abbreviation originated in the 17th century and was used until the 19th.

In our time, another designation of the ruble is the symbol "₽". However, it is worth noting thatthis spelling is relevant only for banknotes of Russian origin, and everyone knows that the ruble is used in three countries: Russia, Belarus and in the unrecognized Transnistria. It is different for each country.

• in Belarus - "Br";
• in Transnistria - "P" with a line that is located vertically.

But in the article we will only talk about the Russian ruble.

Paste from keyboard

So, we have already done the main thing, we have indicated the designation of the ruble. We know the symbol, and now it's time to tell you how to enter it from the keyboard. The first method that we will use appeared relatively recently, in 2013. But it is worth noting that Microsoft has not implemented this symbol in all of its operating systems, but only in the current ones.

So, continuing to talk about the designation of the ruble, the symbol on the keyboard, as mentioned above, you will not find. Here you will need to use the keyboard shortcut - "Image" + 8.

Everything is quite simple, after pressing these two keys, the ruble symbol will be printed in the place where you put the cursor. But it's worth noting that "Image" must be clamped on the right, not the left, and the figure eight must be entered on the upper numeric keypad, otherwise nothing will work.

Insert using symbol table

The simplest way to enter the ruble symbol was presented above. But for some reason it may not work (broken key or outdated version of Windows). What to do if you urgently need to enter the ruble symbol?The symbol in Word will help you with this. So, now let's look at a way to insert a ruble symbol into a document using the symbol table in Word.

This is done quite simply, the main thing for you is to initially open the table itself. To do this, go to the "Insert" tab. Now on the toolbar you need to find the "Symbol" button. Click on it, and in the drop-down menu, select "Other Symbols". Visually, you can see the whole process in the picture below.

Now you have the desired table. As you can see, there are an unimaginable number of characters, manually searching for the right one will take a long time. In order to facilitate the search, you can select "Currency" in the "Set" drop-down list. After that, symbols of currencies of different countries will appear in front of you. Find the one you want and click the "Insert" button. Pay attention to the sign code, it will come in handy later.

Using a hexadecimal code

Remember that code you should have looked at? It is he who is the hexadecimal code of this character. Now let's look at how it should be used to enter the ruble symbol.

And there is practically nothing to do here, you just need to enter the code and press "Image" + X. But for greater clarity, let's look at an example.

Let's say you entered a number in the "Word" and want to put the ruble symbol at the end. To do this:

• put the cursor in the right place;
• enter"20BD";
• Press ALT+X.

After that, the code will turn into the character we need. If you want to know other character codes, then for this you can view them in a table with characters, simply by highlighting the desired element. The "Character code" field will show a set of four characters, which is the hexadecimal code of the selected character.

Using the clipboard

Well, the last way is generally for the lazy, although few people know about it. Using the clipboard, you can insert not only a printable character into a document, but also the picture of this character itself. To do this, the picture or symbol must first be placed on the clipboard, that is, simply copied. When the desired object is in the buffer, make sure that you do not copy something else there, otherwise nothing will work.

After that, open the program or page where you will enter the character, paste the copied object using the CTRL + V combination or the context menu.

By the way, you can use this article to copy the material you want. Here is the symbol itself - "₽". By the way, any character or image can be copied in this way.