L B Bar Symbol ℔

U+2114
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Symbol Meaning

The Latin lowercase letters “l” and “b” combined into one symbol with a line are commonly called a “libra.” It’s a multifaceted symbol that is most commonly used to denote a pound. Sometimes you may come across it in descriptions of ancient Roman weight measures too. People believe that this symbol appeared as an abbreviation of the word “libra” (meaning “scales” in Latin).

The Unicode LB Bar Symbol looks as if it were handwritten in cursive. You can use this libra symbol from Letterlike Symbols2100–214F in your texts and designs if it fits your style.

The symbol “L B Bar Symbol” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

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pounds.

Unicode Name L B Bar Symbol
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Letterlike Symbols
Unicode Subblock Letterlike symbols
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Letterlike Symbols
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2114
Simple case change 2114
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 84 94 226 132 148 14845076 11100010 10000100 10010100
UTF-16BE 21 14 33 20 8468 00100001 00010100
UTF-16LE 14 21 20 33 5153 00010100 00100001
UTF-32BE 00 00 21 14 0 0 33 20 8468 00000000 00000000 00100001 00010100
UTF-32LE 14 21 00 00 20 33 0 0 337707008 00010100 00100001 00000000 00000000

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