Unicode Character 'NUMBER SIGN' (U+0023) | 
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NUMBER SIGN
			NUMBER SIGN
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | NUMBER SIGN | 
| Block | Basic Latin | 
| Category | Punctuation, Other [Po] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | European Number Terminator [ET] | 
| Mirror | N | 
| Index entries | octothorpe crosshatch pound sign NUMBER SIGN hash  | 
		
| Comments | pound sign (weight) hashtag, hash crosshatch, octothorpe for denoting musical sharp U+266F is preferred  | 
		
| See Also | l b bar symbol U+2114 numero sign U+2116 viewdata square U+2317 music sharp sign U+266F equals sign and slanted parallel U+29E3  | 
		
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| Emoji | #️⃣: keycap: # #⃣: keycap: #  | 
		
| HTML Entity (decimal) | # | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | # | 
| HTML Entity (named) | # | 
		
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +0023 Alt 035 Alt 35  | 
	
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x23 (23) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100011 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x0023 (0023) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 35 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x00000023 (0023) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 35 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u0023" | 
| Python source code | u"\u0023" | 
| More... | |
| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | # | 
| string.toLowerCase() | # | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_EUROPEAN_NUMBER_TERMINATOR [5] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 24 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | No | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |