NUMBER SIGN

Codepoint
U+0023
Literal Character
#
Name
NUMBER SIGN
Sketch
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Aliases
pound sign (weight)
hashtag, hash
crosshatch, octothorpe
Control Character
no
Block
Basic Latin
Subblock
ASCII punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding
23
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 23 (big endian)
HTML Entity
-
LaTeX expression
\#
Perl string literal
\x{23}
Comments
  • for denoting musical sharp 266F is preferred
See Also
U+2114: l b bar symbol
U+2116: numero sign
U+2317: viewdata square
U+266F: music sharp sign
U+29E3: equals sign and slanted parallel
Wikipedia
Number sign (en)
Used In