A crisp British pound note, fresh out of a cash machine, the pound-banknote emoji is UK money condensed into one character. It covers prices, payday, and the cost of living, sitting on the keyboard alongside its dollar, euro, and yen counterparts for anyone talking money in sterling.
What 💷 means
Unicode's own label for it is blunter than the nickname: Banknote With Pound Sign, no ambiguity about which currency's on the note — useful shorthand any time a price, a bill or a payout needs to read as unmistakably British.
It's one of the original four banknote emojis alongside 💵💶💴, on keyboards since the very early days.
How and when to use it
- Payday and budgeting posts: "Rent paid, bills paid, £12 left for fun 💷 thriving."
- UK price commentary: "£7 for a coffee in the station 💷 make it make sense."
- Use it with 🇬🇧 for anything British-economy flavored.
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › money
- Codepoints
U+1F4B7- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:pound:- Keywords
- bank, banknote, bill, billion, cash, currency, money, note, pound, pounds
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 💷 Pound Banknote or 🪸 Coral?
Runs with a crowd
💷 keeps company in money emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.