Rial Sign

The Rial Sign at U+FDFC is a currency symbol for the rial, encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block as a compatibility character shaped like an Arabic abbreviation. It represents “rial” in Arabic-script financial text, especially where prices and amounts are written for countries whose currency name is rial or riyal. Its best-known everyday use is in Iranian pricing, receipts, accounting records, and advertisements, where an amount may be followed by the sign to mean Iranian rial. It can also appear in Arabic-language financial material for riyal currencies, though many modern documents use currency codes such as IRR, SAR, QAR, OMR, or YER, or spell the currency name out instead. Typographically, this character is tied to Arabic-script layout and may look like a compact ligature rather than a simple standalone mark. Because it is a presentation-form symbol rather than a broadly standardized accounting convention, data entry and search can be inconsistent: the same price may be written with this sign, with Arabic words, or with a Latin currency code.