U+FFE1 "￡" Fullwidth Pound Sign Unicode Character

U+FFE1 "￡" Fullwidth Pound Sign is a typographic variant of the standard pound sterling symbol (£), designed to occupy the same width as a fullwidth character in East Asian CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text environments. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, and its primary purpose is to align with the monospaced grid of fullwidth characters, ensuring visual consistency when used alongside other fullwidth punctuation, letters, or digits in vertical or horizontal mixed-script layouts. Unlike the regular pound sign, this version is intended for compatibility and display in contexts where proportional spacing would disrupt the uniform character cell dimensions required by certain legacy systems or formatting conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFE1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Fullwidth Pound Sign
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator
Decomposition Type	Wide
Decomposition Mapping	"£" U+00A3 Pound Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	￡
HTML Hex Encoding	￡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBF 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFE1
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffe1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Prefix Numeric
East Asian Width	Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"£" U+00A3 Pound Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"£" U+00A3 Pound Sign
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