FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN character

FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN
U+FFE1
65505
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Sc (Currency Symbol)
ET (European Number Terminator)
N
0
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN is a currency sign from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN is European Number Terminator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like the degree sign or currency symbols. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The European Terminator (ET) bidi class includes characters such as currency symbols ($, €, £) and other punctuation marks that typically appear alongside European numbers. ET characters are treated neutrally and ensure that symbols associated with numbers are displayed correctly in bidirectional text.

Currency Symbol (Sc) refers to characters that represent units of currency. These symbols are used in financial texts and transactions to denote money, such as the dollar sign ($), euro sign (€), and yen sign (¥).

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..