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Find more about the U+00A3 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+00A3 |
|---|---|
| Name | Pound Sign |
| Alias | pound sterling, Irish punt, lira, etc. |
| Category | Currency Symbol (Sc) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | £ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | £ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | £ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \00A3 |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+00A3Markdown [U+00A3](https://everychar.com/code/U+00A3) |
| Notes | Not to be confused with the unit of weight. Glyph may have one or two crossbars, in distinction from 20A4. |