Unicode Character "＃" (U+FF03)

The character ＃ (Fullwidth Number Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF03. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 Fullwidth Number Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+FF03
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Terminator (ET)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF03 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ＃
HTML (hex) ＃
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BC%83
CSS \00FF03
JavaScript, JSON \uFF03
C, C++, Java \uFF03
Python \uFF03
Rust \u{FF03}
Ruby \uFF03

How to type "＃"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBC 0x83
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF03
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF03

References