Unicode Character "£" (U+00A3)

The character £ (Pound Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A3. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as £.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Pound Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00A3
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Terminator (ET)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Currency Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00A3 Conversion

HTML (decimal) £
HTML (hex) £
HTML (named) £
URL Escape Code %C2%A3
CSS \0000A3
JavaScript, JSON \u00A3
C, C++, Java \u00A3
Python \u00A3
Rust \u{00A3}
Ruby \u00A3

How to type "£"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 3. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 3. Release Alt.

Preview

  • £
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • £
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • £
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA3
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A3
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A3

Characters based on "£" (U+00A3)

References