This article is about the currency symbols "£" and "₤". For the sign "#", see Number sign. For the sign "lb", see pound (mass).
£
Pound sign
In Unicode
U+00A3£POUND SIGN (£)
Currency
Currency
Pound
Graphical variants
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U+FFE1￡FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN
Different from
Different from
U+20A4₤LIRA SIGN U+0023#NUMBER SIGN
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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.
In the United States, "pound sign" refers to the symbol # (number sign). In Canada ”pound sign” can mean £ or #.
The poundsign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British...
is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or poundsign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes...
and nine of its associated territories. The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency...
symbol for the pound sterling, £ Number sign (also poundsign), the symbol # Pound, Virginia, a town Pound, Wisconsin, a village Pound (town), Wisconsin...
other languages. In English the euro sign – like the dollar sign ⟨$⟩ and the poundsign ⟨£⟩ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced, the reverse...
pound of silver. Newly invented currencies and currencies adopting new symbols have symbolism meaningful to their adopter. For example, the euro sign...
currency sign for the British pound sterling (to abbreviate the Latin libra, a pound, see £sd); in modern usage it has been overtaken by the poundsign (£)...
explosion. Euro sign Indian rupee signPoundsign Ruble sign Rupee sign Spanish dollar Turkish lira sign Yen and yuan sign Won sign As of April 2022[update]...
and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game Webkinz. "When is a backslash not a backslash?". archives.miloush.net. Poundsign#Double dash style...
general, U+00A3 poundsign may be used for both the various currencies known as pound and the currencies known as lira. Examples include the pound unit in sterling...
The pound (sign: £; ISO code: GIP) is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins and...
The pound is the currency of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The symbol is the poundsign, £. The ISO...
encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially...
indicate special keywords that the C preprocessor had to process first. The poundsign was adopted for use within IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks around 1988...
The pound (Sign: £, £A for distinction) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar...
imperative form of recipere meaning "receive" or "take". Compare with Poundsign#Origin. Transliteration as Rx is ubiquitous but erroneous, it is not an...
The pound (Manx: Punt Manninagh; abbreviation: IMP; sign: £) is the currency of the Isle of Man, at parity with sterling. The Manx pound is divided into...
on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the top 40 hit "PoundSign (#?*!)". In addition, he wrote Sammy Kershaw's 2003 single "Beer, Bait...
for schwa. In the eighteenth-century Caslon metal fonts, the British poundsign (£) was set with a rotated italic uppercase J. The following rotated (turned)...
use of the £ (pound) and € (euro) currency symbols, which are common needs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, although the $ (dollar sign) symbol is also...
ASCII. The £ sign was not mapped to 0x23 as in the British variant of ASCII (ISO-646-GB), allowing both the poundsign and the number sign (#) simultaneously...
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry...
form of mathematical notation Number sign (#), also known as the hash, hash mark, or (in American English) poundsign Service stripe, a military and paramilitary...
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