Fullwidth Pound Sign Symbol

A symbol from the Currency Symbols collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.

Symbol: ￡
Unicode: U+FFE1
HTML entity: ￡
Category: Currency Symbols

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About the fullwidth pound sign symbol

The fullwidth pound sign represents the British pound sterling, the official currency of the United Kingdom and its territories. This wide, monospaced form of the regular pound sign is used primarily in East Asian computing environments, where it fits into the fixed-width character grid of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text. It appears in legacy terminal displays, older text-based interfaces, and certain formatted documents that require uniform character spacing for alignment.

How to type Fullwidth Pound Sign

Native keyboard shortcuts for each operating system — derived from the codepoint, so the steps below are always accurate.

Windows

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In Word / Outlook: type FFE1 then press Alt + X.
Anywhere: press Win + . to open the emoji & symbol picker, then search.

macOS

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Enable “Unicode Hex Input” in System Settings → Keyboard, then hold Option and type FFE1.
Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.