POUND SIGN

Property Value
Codepoint U+00A3
Literal Character £
Name POUND SIGN
Sketch
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Aliases pound sterling, Irish punt, lira, etc.
Control Character no
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Subblock ASCII punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding c2 a3
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 a3 (big endian)
HTML Entity £
LaTeX expression \pounds
Perl string literal \x{A3}
Comments
  • glyph may have one or two crossbars, in distinction from 20A4
See Also U+20A4: lira sign
U+20BA: turkish lira sign
U+10192: roman semuncia sign