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Technical information
| Symbol | # | |
| Name | Number sign | |
| Unicode number | U+0023 | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character #, or U+0023, is known as the "Number Sign". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is commonly used in digital communications to denote a number or a hashtag in social media, which is used to group posts together by topic. Its specific appearance and usage can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | # | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | # | |
| HTML Entity (named) | # | |
| URL Escape Code | %23 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x23 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0023 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000023 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0023" | |
| CSS Code | \0023 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0023" | |
| Perl | \x{0023} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0023" | |
| Python 3 | \u0023 | |
| Ruby | \u{0023} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this # in sentence and in bold like this # and in italic like this #.
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Font size:
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12px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>#</span>
span {
content: "\0023";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana