Oman's official currency symbol, unveiled on National Day 2025 and frozen for publication in Unicode 18.0. Approved, but still ahead of any keyboard or font.
The Omani rial sign (, U+20C4) is the Central Bank of Oman's official currency symbol, presented to the public on November 19, 2025, timed around Oman's National Day. Its design is built from two stylized Arabic letters crossed by two lines, in the style many modern currency symbols share: ʿayn (ع), the first letter of عماني (Omani), and rāʾ (ر), the first letter of ريال (rial). Central Bank Governor Ahmed bin Jafar Al-Musallami framed the adoption as a strategic move to strengthen Oman's standing as a regional financial hub and make the rial easier to identify on international, commercial, and digital platforms. It was submitted for Unicode encoding alongside the UAE dirham and Maldivian rufiyaa signs, and as of this writing carries "white" status in Unicode's own pipeline documentation: frozen for publication, pending only ISO approval, with final publication now confirmed alongside the rest of Unicode 18.0 for September 16, 2026. No operating system, font, or keyboard currently ships native support. Two practical routes exist in the meantime. The Central Bank publishes the sign as SVG, PNG and EPS artwork with usage guidelines, which covers an invoice template, a price list or a printed sign. Businesses running Odoo can install an ERP module that embeds a font, so the symbol renders across invoices, reports, the customer portal and point-of-sale receipts. Neither replaces the character: only U+20C4 can be searched, sorted or pasted.
The confirmed character itself, copyable today by codepoint, even though no font renders it natively yet.
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