NUMBER SIGN

Property Value
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 C0 controls
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