£￡💷 GBP Pound symbol sign

Copy and paste GBP Pound symbol from symbol selector below. GBP Pound sign - Pound Sterling symbol stands for British currency that is 4-th most traded currency in the world after $ USD, € Euro and ¥ Japanese yen JPY. To learn to type text £ Pound GPB symbol right from your keyboard, read below. In case you're on Windows with "English - United Kingdom" keyboard layout, you should be able to type pound with just Shift + 3 keyboard shortcut.

What pound means

Pound symbol £ is a currency sign used in UK. It derives from a capital "L", representing libra, the basic unit of weight in the Roman Empire, which in turn is derived from the Latin name for scales or a balance. The pound became an English unit of weight and was so named because it originally had the value of one tower pound (~334 grams) of fine (pure) silver. The same symbol is (or was) used for similarly named currencies in some other countries and territories, such as the Irish pound, Gibraltar pound, Australian pound, and Italian lira. Several countries, including Lebanon and Egypt, call their currency "the pound" but do not use the £ symbol.

How to input pound symbol

Choose your system and find out.

From Keyboard

Alt Codes

Alt Codes

Shortcut technique that works on Desktops and most Laptops running MS Windows. You press Alt and, while holding it, type a code on Num Pad while it's turned on. Please, read a guide if you're running a laptop. You can type many frequently used symbols with this method.

Alt code	Symbol
0156	£

Shift States

Shift states for Windows symbols

Configure your keyboard layout in Windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text. Takes about 5-10 minutes to set things up, but you'll be typing like a boss. You can assign pound symbol £ and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.

Character Map

MS Windows Character map

CharMap allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. You can input pound symbol using it.

Emoji on iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch)

Text Symbols with iPhone Emoji keyboard 📲Simple and beautiful way to discover how to add a virtual keyboard for Emoji symbols visible as small pictures. The keyboard itself is preinstalled on your iOS device, so you don't have to download, or buy anything.

Keyboard viewer

You can make frequently used technical non-fancy symbols like "√ ∑ π ∞ ∆ ™ © æ £ ¢" and åccénted letters on Mac using [Option] key. I've compiled a list of shortcuts in my article and explained how to open keyboard viewer. You can also use your Keyboard Viewer as an alternative to my list.

[Option] + [3] produces £ pound sign.

Character Palette

Character Palette allows you to view and use all characters and symbols, including pound, available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer.

Apple Mac OS X Character Viewer

From Keyboard

Linux keyboard shortcuts for text symbols

Unicode hex code	Symbol	Compose key sequence	Symbol
00A3	£	L-	£
		l-	£

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. And all of them can produce pound text symbol.

Character map

Linux Character maps

Character map allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. It can also help you lookup Unicode codes for entering symbols with keyboard.