Unicode character information
Pound sign
Displayed on your computer as: £
(if the character is not rendered properly, you may not have the appropriate fonts)
Alternative names:
- irish punt
- italian lira
- lira, italian
- lira, turkish
- Pound sign
- pound sterling
- punt, irish
- sterling, pound
- turkish lira
Codepoint (decimal): 163
In unicode block: Latin-1 Supplement
Html entities:
£ or £ or £Character input:
There is no universal input system for Unicode characters. But you can use the system-specific input methods below.| Windows: | Hold down Alt and press + on the numeric keyboard. Type: 00A3 and release Alt. A registry key needs to be enabled for this to work. See Unicode input (wikipedia) for more details. |
| Linux: | Hold down Ctrl and ⇧ Shift and type U00A3. Now press ↵ Enter and release Ctrl and ⇧ Shift. |
Other Infos:
General category: Sc (Currency_Symbol): A currency sign.Bidirectional class: ET (European_Terminator): A terminator in a numeric format context, includes currency signs.
Canonical combining class: 0 (Not_Reordered): Spacing and enclosing marks; also many vowel and consonant signs, even if nonspacing.