Pound Sign £
Symbol Meaning
Pound Sign. Latin-1 Supplement.
The symbol “Pound Sign” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
pound sterling, irish punt, italian lira, turkish lira.
| Unicode Name | Pound Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | £ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 156(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00A3 |
| Simple case change | 00A3 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 A3 | 194 163 | 49827 | 11000010 10100011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 A3 | 0 163 | 163 | 00000000 10100011 |
| UTF-16LE | A3 00 | 163 0 | 41728 | 10100011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 A3 | 0 0 0 163 | 163 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10100011 |
| UTF-32LE | A3 00 00 00 | 163 0 0 0 | 2734686208 | 10100011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Pound Sign is part of collections:
