ASCII Character #
Number signThe symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. Since 2007, widespread usage of the symbol to introduce metadata tags on social media platforms has led to such tags being known as "hashtags", and from that, the symbol itself is sometimes called a hashtag. In Unicode and ASCII, the symbol has a code point as U+0023 # NUMBER SIGN and # in HTML5.
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ASCII Code for #
These are the code points for number sign in various character setsUnicode for #
The character for number sign is mapped in Unicode as U+0023| Unicode | U+0023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 35 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0023 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x23 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100011 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 00100011 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0023 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000023 | |
HTML Entities for #
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the number sign in HTML| HTML Number | # | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | # | |
| HTML Entity | # | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %23 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =23 |
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} |