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Translingual
Symbol
# (English symbol name number sign or hash or pound sign or octothorpe)
- (cartography) Used to denote a village.
- (chess notation) Checkmate.
- (computing) The hash character.
- (medicine) A fracture.
- (Internet) A hashtag, which is a metadata tag for use in microblogging and social network services, used to label and search content.
- (Usenet) Used to pad the left side of a quotation from a manual or official source.
- (mathematics, computer science) Concatenation.
- (set theory) The cardinality of a set.
- #{ 5, 3, 7, 11 } = 4
- (phonology) Used to indicate a word boundary.
- (syntax) Used to indicate that a sentence is grammatical but semantically strange.
- Alternative form of ‡
Usage notes
In English it is called the hash, number sign, pound sign (American), or octothorpe (uncommon).
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- (to pad a quotation on Usenet): > (for a quotation not necessarily from a manual or official source)
Derived terms
English
Etymology
The symbol # derives from the abbreviation lb for (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin libra (“pound”), via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with a bar, ℔.
Noun
# (plural # or #s)
- (food packaging, US) Pound (unit of weight).
- 3# — "three pounds"
- (followed by a numeral: used attributively) Number.
- #3 — "number three"
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Number.
- (linguistics) Denotes a word or morpheme boundary.
Synonyms
- (number): no.
Related terms
See also
Number sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chinese
Alternative forms
- (superscript) #
Glyph origin
Likely from English.
Pronunciation
- 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
- (Mainland China) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 號/号 (hào, “number”), used after a numeral.
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