Number Sign #
Symbol Meaning
Number Sign. Basic Latin.
The symbol “Number Sign” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe.
| Unicode Name | Number Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | # |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 0023 |
| Simple case change | 0023 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 23 | 35 | 35 | 00100011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 23 | 0 35 | 35 | 00000000 00100011 |
| UTF-16LE | 23 00 | 35 0 | 8960 | 00100011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 23 | 0 0 0 35 | 35 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00100011 |
| UTF-32LE | 23 00 00 00 | 35 0 0 0 | 587202560 | 00100011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |