Unicode Character "£" U+FFE1 Fullwidth Pound Sign

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "£" at code point U+FFE1 is Fullwidth Pound Sign. It is a character in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is part of the Common script. The character is a currency symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "£" is 0xEF 0xBF 0xA1 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0xFFE1.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFE1
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Pound Sign
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class European Terminator
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "£" U+00A3 Pound Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding £
HTML Hex Encoding £
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBF 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFE1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFE1
C/C++/Java Escape \uffe1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Prefix Numeric
East Asian Width Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "£" U+00A3 Pound Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold "£" U+00A3 Pound Sign
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other