number sign

n. character which symbolizes the word "number", #

Number sign is one name for the symbol #, and is the preferred Unicode name for the codepoint represented by that glyph. The symbol is similar to the musical symbol sharp (♯). Several names for this symbol are used in the United States and Canada. In most other English-speaking countries, it is called a hash.
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