Check mark

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The check or check mark (American English), checkmark (Philippine English), tickmark (Indian English) or tick (Australian, New Zealand and British English)[1] is a mark (✓, ✔, etc.) used in many countries, including the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct answer", "yes; this has been completed", or "yes; this [item or option] applies").

The X mark can also be used for this purpose (most notably on election ballot papers, e.g. in the United Kingdom), but otherwise usually indicates "no", incorrectness, or failure. One of the earliest usages of a check mark as an indication of completion is on ancient Babylonian tablets "where small indentations were sometimes made with a stylus, usually placed at the left of a worker's name, presumably to indicate whether the listed ration has been issued."[2]

As a verb, to check (off) means to add such a mark. Printed forms, printed documents, and computer software (see checkbox) commonly include squares in which to place check marks.

International differences

The check mark is a predominant affirmative symbol of convenience in the English-speaking world because of its instant and simple composition. In other language communities, there may be different conventions.

It is common in Swedish and Norwegian schools for a ✓ to indicate that an answer is incorrect,[3][4][5] while "R", from the Swedish Script error: No such module "Lang". or Norwegian Script error: No such module "Lang"., i.e., "correct", is used to indicate that an answer is correct.

In Finnish, ✓ stands for Script error: No such module "Lang"., i.e., "wrong", due to its similarity to a slanted v.[citation needed] The opposite, "correct", is marked with ⋅/⋅, a slanted vertical line emphasized with two dots[6] (see also commercial minus sign).

In Japan, the O mark is used instead of the check mark, and the X or ✓ mark are commonly used for wrong.[7]

In the Netherlands (and former Dutch colonies) the flourish of approval (or krul) is used for approving a section or sum.

In German-speaking countries, ✓ is used for “correct” or “done”, but not usually for ticking boxes, which are crossed instead. The opposite of ✓ is ƒ (short for falsch “wrong”).

Unicode

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See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tick | English Meaning". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tenney, Jonathan S. (2011-07-12). Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society. Brill. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004206892.i-268. ISBN 978-90-04-20704-2.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."bock". Svensk ordbok utgiven av Svenska Akademien (in svenska). Swedish Academy.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."bock". Svenska Akademiens ordlista (in svenska). Swedish Academy.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."bock". Svenska Akademiens ordbok (in svenska). Vol. 5. Swedish Academy. 1917.
  6. ^ Version 3.2 of the Unicode Standard, General Punctuation 2002-03-27
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Internationalization". W3.org. W3C. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 2024-11-26.

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