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Technical information

Symbol#
NameNumber sign
Unicode numberU+0023
CategoryASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character #, or U+0023, is known as the "Number Sign". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is commonly used in digital communications to denote a number or a hashtag in social media, which is used to group posts together by topic. Its specific appearance and usage can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity#
HTML Entity (hex)#
HTML Entity (named)#
URL Escape Code%23
UTF-8 (hex)0x23
UTF-8 (binary)00100011
UTF-160x0023
UTF-320x00000023

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0023"
CSS Code\0023
JavaScript"\u0023"
Perl\x{0023}
Python 2u"\u0023"
Python 3\u0023
Ruby\u{0023}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this # in sentence and in bold like this # and in italic like this #.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#35;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0023";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References