Pound Sign
Group: Currency
Keywords
About this character
Pound Sign belongs to the Currency group and is encoded at U+00A3. It was added in Unicode 0.0.
Shortcode
Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.
Technical codes
- Code point
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U+00A3 - Hex
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00A3 - Decimal
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163 - HTML
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£ - CSS
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\A3 - JavaScript
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\u00A3 - Python
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\u00A3 - UTF-8
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C2 A3
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.