Pound Sterling Symbol £
Tap the button to copy the pound sterling symbol, or grab a variant below. The table has its Alt code, HTML entity and Unicode details.
| Copy | Unicode name | Codepoint | HTML | Windows Alt code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pound Sign | U+00A3 | £ | Alt+0163 | |
| Lira Sign | U+20A4 | none | none |
- The pound sterling symbol is Unicode U+00A3 (Pound Sign).
- In HTML, type
£to get £. - On Windows, hold Alt and type 0163 on the numeric keypad.
- On a Mac, press Option+3.
- It is a single character: it survives copy and paste into any text field and counts as one character against limits.
The pound sign denotes the British pound sterling and appears on UK keyboards where US layouts put the hash. Unicode's separate lira sign ₤ with two bars is essentially unused today. On US Mac keyboards Option+3 produces it.