Pound sign

Official name

POUND SIGN

Unicode block

Latin-1 Supplement

Added in

Unicode 1.1

HTML

£

HTML hex

£

CSS content

\A3

JavaScript

\u{A3}

UTF-8 bytes

C2 A3

Keywords

currency, EGP, GBP, pound, cash, price

Keyboard

Windows: hold Alt, type 0163 on the number pad

Mac: ⌥ 3

Categories

Money

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.