L B Bar Symbol ℔
Symbol Meaning
The Latin lowercase letters “l” and “b” combined into one symbol with a line are commonly called a “libra.” It’s a multifaceted symbol that is most commonly used to denote a pound. Sometimes you may come across it in descriptions of ancient Roman weight measures too. People believe that this symbol appeared as an abbreviation of the word “libra” (meaning “scales” in Latin).
The Unicode LB Bar Symbol looks as if it were handwritten in cursive. You can use this libra symbol from Letterlike Symbols2100–214F in your texts and designs if it fits your style.
The symbol “L B Bar Symbol” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
pounds.
| Unicode Name | L B Bar Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2114 |
| Simple case change | 2114 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 94 | 226 132 148 | 14845076 | 11100010 10000100 10010100 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 14 | 33 20 | 8468 | 00100001 00010100 |
| UTF-16LE | 14 21 | 20 33 | 5153 | 00010100 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 14 | 0 0 33 20 | 8468 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00010100 |
| UTF-32LE | 14 21 00 00 | 20 33 0 0 | 337707008 | 00010100 00100001 00000000 00000000 |