Also known as U+00A3, POUND SIGN, pound sign, pound symbol, pound sterling sign, pound sterling symbol
pound sign (U+00A3), pound sterling, Irish punt, lira, etc.; not to be confused with the unit of weight; glyph may have one or two crossbars, in distinction from ₤ (U+20A4)
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+00A3 £ POUND SIGN ( & pound; )
- Currency
- Pound
- Different from
- U+20A4 ₤ LIRA SIGN , U+0023 # NUMBER SIGN
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Pound sign fonts.svg
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- Unicode character
- £
- Commons category
- Pound sign (£)
- Unicode code point
- 00A3
- Unicode character name
- POUND SIGN
- HTML entity
- £
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Article
The £ grapheme in a selection of fonts
The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds. The sign may be drawn with one or two bars depending on personal preference, but the Bank of England has used the one-bar style exclusively on banknotes since 1975.