£

Technical information

Symbol	£
Name	Pound sign
Unicode number	U+00A3
Category	Presently Currency Symbols Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character £, or U+00A3, is known as the "Pound Sign". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Currency" category. Visually, it is depicted as a stylized 'L' with a horizontal line or lines crossing it. The Pound Sign is used as the symbol for the currency of the United Kingdom, the pound sterling. The symbol itself originates from the Latin word for pound, "libra". In financial contexts, it precedes numerical amounts to indicate a value in pounds sterling. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Pound Sign can depend on its context.

Encoding

HTML Entity	£
HTML Entity (hex)	£
HTML Entity (named)	£
URL Escape Code	%C2%A3
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA3
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010100011
UTF-16	0x00A3
UTF-32	0x000000A3

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A3"
CSS Code	\00A3
JavaScript	"\u00A3"
Perl	\x{00A3}
Python 2	u"\u00A3"
Python 3	\u00A3
Ruby	\u{00A3}

Preview

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#163;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A3";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Segoe UI Symbol

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