Number Sign
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Number Sign belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+0023. 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+0023 - Hex
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0023 - Decimal
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35 - HTML
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# - CSS
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\23 - JavaScript
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\u0023 - Python
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\u0023 - UTF-8
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23
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.