Unicode Character "£" U+00A3 Pound Sign
Unicode Version 15.1
£
Summary
The unicode character "£" at code point U+00A3 is Pound Sign. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a currency symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "£" is 0xC2 0xA3 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00A3.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Pound Sign |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | £ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | £ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | £ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a3 |