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Number Sign

U+0023
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character #
Decimal #
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0023
Decimal
35
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation (Po)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ET European Number Terminator
East Asian Width
Na Narrow

Emoji Details

Group
Symbols
Subgroup
keycap
Shortcode
:keycap:
Emoji version
E0.6
Skin tones
No

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Number Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
#
HTML Hex
#
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
23
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 23
UTF-32 Hex
00000023
CSS Escape
\23
JavaScript Escape
\u0023
Python Escape
\u0023
URL Encoded
%23
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Number Sign as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.