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U+0023 · NUMBER SIGN

Number Sign

  • CodepointU+0023
  • NameNUMBER SIGN
  • Decimal35
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classET — European Terminator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0023 (#) is NUMBER SIGN, a punctuation mark in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+0023 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style. It is also used as a component inside emoji sequences.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8231 byte
UTF-1600231 code unit
UTF-32000000234 bytes
HTML named#named character reference
HTML decimal#
HTML hex#
CSS\23in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0023
JSON\u0023
Python\u0023
Python\N{NUMBER SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u0023
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{23}
Go\u0023
Ruby\u0023
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(35)
URL-encoded%23percent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on #

U+FE5F﹟Small Number Sign U+FF03＃Fullwidth Number Sign
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+001DGSInformation Separator Three U+001ERSInformation Separator Two U+001FUSInformation Separator One U+0020SPSpace U+0021!Exclamation Mark U+0022"Quotation Mark U+0024$Dollar Sign U+0025%Percent Sign U+0026&Ampersand U+0027'Apostrophe U+0028(Left Parenthesis U+0029)Right Parenthesis