number sign

Summary

number sign is a character^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.6% of character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,003 views/month, #3 of 496).^[2]

Key Facts

• number sign's image is recorded as Number sign.svg^[3].
• number sign's instance of is recorded as character^[4].
• number sign's Commons category is recorded as Hash^[5].
• number sign's Unicode character is recorded as ＃^[6].
• number sign's Unicode character is recorded as ﹟^[7].
• number sign's Unicode character is recorded as #^[8].
• number sign's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g30b^[9].
• number sign's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0517320^[10].
• number sign's described by source is recorded as Microsoft Learn^[11].
• number sign's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/pound-telephone-button^[12].
• number sign's different from is recorded as sharp^[13].
• number sign's different from is recorded as £^[14].
• number sign's MathWorld ID is recorded as Octothorpe^[15].
• number sign's IBM graphic character global ID is recorded as SM010000^[16].
• number sign's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[17].
• number sign's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778907551^[18].
• number sign's Namuwiki ID is recorded as #^[19].
• number sign's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as coixinet-0^[20].

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Designation and Status

number sign's instance of is recorded as character^[4].

Cultural Significance

Things named for number sign include hashtag^[21], a software feature^[22] and shebang^[23], a sequence^[24], founded in 1980^[25].

Why It Matters

number sign ranks in the top 0.6% of character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,003 views/month, #3 of 496).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[26] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[27]

Entities named for it include hashtag^[21], a software feature^[22] and shebang^[23], a sequence^[24], founded in 1980^[25].