U+2114 "℔" L B Bar Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
℔
U+2114 "℔" L B Bar Symbol is a typographic ligature historically used in pharmacy and prescription writing, representing the Latin abbreviation "libra" for the pound unit of weight. It combines the letters L and B with a horizontal bar, which often indicated an abbreviation or a struck-through stroke in manuscript traditions. This symbol is part of the Letterlike Symbols block in Unicode, preserving a vestige of pre-modern notation for apothecary and medical measurements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2114 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | L B Bar Symbol |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2114 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002114 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2114 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |