#
U+0023

NUMBER SIGN

Po — Other Punctuation
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
35

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent NUMBER SIGN in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 23 35 1
UTF-16 LE 23 00 35 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 23 0 35 2
UTF-32 LE 23 00 00 00 35 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 23 0 0 0 35 4
ASCII 23 35 1
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 23 35 1
Windows-1252 23 35 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) 23 35 1
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) 23 35 1
KOI8-R 23 35 1
Shift-JIS 23 35 1
EUC-JP 23 35 1
GBK 23 35 1
Big5 23 35 1

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
#
#
\23
\u0023
%23
\u0023
35

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 1 byte. Single-byte characters (U+0000–U+007F) are identical to ASCII — the high bit is always 0.

Byte 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1
23
UTF-8: 23 · 1 byte · Codepoint U+0023

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ET — European Terminator

Nearby Characters in Basic Latin