£

POUND SIGN

Unicode U00A3

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£

Technical Details

Unicode U00A3
Category Latin-1 Supplement
HTML Entity £
UTF-8 Hex A3

About POUND SIGN

A symbol used to represent the currency of the United Kingdom.

Common Uses

  • Text formatting and layout
  • Digital typography
  • Document structure
  • Writing system requirements

Technical Notes

  • Part of Latin-1 Supplement block
  • Unicode standardized
  • Cross-platform compatible
  • Widely supported in modern systems