U+0023 Number Sign
U+0023 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as pound sign (weight), hashtag, hash, crosshatch and octothorpe.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. In text U+0023 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “hash sign” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: hash, hashtag, lb, number, pound.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 35 |
UTF-8 | 23 |
UTF-16 | 00 23 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 23 |
URL-Quoted | %23 |
HTML hex reference | # |
HTML named entity | # |
alias | pound sign (weight) |
alias | hashtag |
alias | hash |
alias | crosshatch |
alias | octothorpe |
LATEX | \# |
AGL: Latin-1 | numbersign |
AGL: Latin-2 | numbersign |
AGL: Latin-3 | numbersign |
AGL: Latin-4 | numbersign |
AGL: Latin-5 | numbersign |
Adobe Glyph List | numbersign |
digraph | Nb |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
NUMBER SIGN | |
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Basic Latin | |
Other Punctuation | |
Common | |
European Terminator | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |