錢的鎊:£
這一支指的是貨幣的那個 pound,記號就是 £。
noun · B1
The symbol £, written in front of an amount of money to show British pounds — for example £20.
英鎊符號 £
One way to hold this phrase: it simply means the mark that stands for a pound. The trouble is that English has two different pounds — the British money and the unit of weight — so the phrase has two different marks to point at. Picture a price tag on one side and a bag on a scale on the other; the name is the same, and the country of the speaker tells you which one to see.
Two branches
錢的鎊:£
這一支指的是貨幣的那個 pound,記號就是 £。
noun · B1
The symbol £, written in front of an amount of money to show British pounds — for example £20.
英鎊符號 £
重量的磅與電話上的 #
同一個名字裡的 pound 換成重量的磅,記號就變成 #。這是美式英文的讀法。
noun · B1
In American English, the name for the symbol #. You meet it most often on the telephone, where a recorded voice asks you to press it, and it is also written after a number to show pounds in weight, as in 5#.
井字號 #(美式)