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See also: ⋕ and Appendix:Variations of the number sign
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Translingual
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Symbol
[edit]# (English symbol name number sign or hash or pound sign or octothorpe)
- (computing) The hash character.
- (Internet) A hashtag, which is a metadata tag for use in microblogging and social network services, used to label and search content.
- (chess notation) Checkmate.
- Synonym: ++
- (medicine) A fracture.
- (cartography) Used to denote a village.
- (Usenet) Used to pad the left side of a quotation from a manual or official source.
- (set theory) The cardinality of a set.
- (mathematics, computer science) Concatenation.
- (mathematics) Apartness, a binary relation such that if a#b, then any other element c is apart from at least one of a,b. See apartness relation.
- (phonology) Used to indicate a word boundary.
- (linguistics) Used to indicate that a sentence is grammatical but semantically strange.
- #Jane is a great hostess and John is too.
- #I slept a wink last night.
- #Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- Alternative form of ‡.
- Alternative form of ⌗ (“key available on telephone keypads”).
- (music) Alternative form of ♯ (“sharp”).
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (to pad a quotation on Usenet): > (for a quotation not necessarily from a manual or official source)
Derived terms
[edit]English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The symbol # derives from the abbreviation lb for Latin libra (“pound”), via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with a bar, ℔.
Noun
[edit]# (plural # or #s)
- (food packaging, US) Pound (unit of weight).
- 3# — "three pounds"
- (attributive, precedes a numeral, chiefly Canada, US) Number.
- #3 — "number three"
- Synonym: no.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Number.
- 1986 December 14, Ben Robbins, “Operator Denies Request For Gay Phone #”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 2:
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Number sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chinese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (superscript) #
Glyph origin
[edit]Likely from English.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hào
- Wade–Giles: hao4
- Yale: hàu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
- Palladius: хао (xao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hàor
- Wade–Giles: hao4-ʼrh
- Yale: hàur
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawl
- Palladius: хаор (xaor)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xaʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Noun
[edit]#
- (Mainland China) Alternative form of 號/号 (“number”), used after a numeral.
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