html-entity

£

£

£

HTML named character reference £ maps to U+00A3.

Mapping

Named reference
£
Code point(s)
U+00A3
Decimal
163
Characters
£

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (£) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02