POUND SIGN

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

Latin-1 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

• not to be confused with the unit of weight
• 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

Wikipedia

Pound sign (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
￡	FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN	<wide> POUND SIGN (U+00A3)