This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block which goes from 0x80 to 0xFF.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: £
You can use the u+00A3 copy pc button below.
Easy u+00A3 copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+00A3 name is pound sign emoji.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint (hex) | 00A3, u00A3 |
| Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
| Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | - |
| Official name (Unicode 15.0) | POUND SIGN |
| resolved name | pound sign |
| block | Latin-1 Supplement (Latin_1_Sup) |
| common typos | u+00A3, u+A003 |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 00A3 like u 00A3, (u+00A3) or u +00A3. You can also find u-00A3, u*00A3, un+00A3, u00A3, u=00A3 or c+00A3. You can also spell it with u 00A3 unicode, u plus 00A3, uncode 00A3 or unicode + 00A3.
Its bidirectional class is "ET":European Number Terminator (DEGREE SIGN, currency symbols, ...)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+00A3 that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode Latin-1 Supplement keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u00A3 allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
| encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 A3 | 49827 | 11000010 10100011 |
| UCS2 | A3 00 | 41728 | 10100011 00000000 |
| UTF-16LE | A3 00 | 41728 | 10100011 00000000 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 A3 | 163 | 10100011 |
| UTF7 | 2B 41 4B 4D 2D | 185779047725 | 00101011 01000001 01001011 01001101 00101101 |
| UTF7-IMAP | 26 41 4B 4D 2D | 164304211245 | 00100110 01000001 01001011 01001101 00101101 |