U+00A3
CHARACTER
POUND SIGN
Category:
Currency Symbol (Sc)
Block:
Latin-1 Supplement
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 1.1
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
POUND SIGN
|
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+00A3
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| Decimal Value |
163
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|
| General Category | Currency Symbol (Sc) → | |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 1.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
|
Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 2 bytes |
C2 A3
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
00A3
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|
| UTF-32 4 bytes |
000000A3
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|
| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 A3
LE: A3 00
|
|
| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 00 A3
LE: A3 00 00 00
|
Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
£
|
|
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
£
|
|
| HTML Named Entity |
£
|
|
| CSS Escape |
\0000A3
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u00A3
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\u00A3
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|
| JSON Escape |
\u00A3
|
|
| Python |
\u00A3
|
|
| PHP |
"\u{A3}"
|
|
| Java |
"\u00A3"
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| C / C++ |
"\u00A3"
|
|
| Rust |
'\u{a3}'
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|
| URL Percent-Encoded |
%C2%A3
|
Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
ET — European Number Terminator
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Visual rendering of U+00A3 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.
£
Context:
A £ Z 123
£
Context:
A £ Z 123
£
Context:
A £ Z 123
£
Context:
A £ Z 123