List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below.

In this table,

  • The first cell in each row gives a symbol;
  • The second is the name assigned to it by the Unicode Consortium
  • The third gives its most common alias or name in another major variety of English, e.g., period for full stop. Otherwise the Unicode name is repeated to facilitate sorting .
  • The fourth lists closely related concepts or glyphs, or adds a clarification note.

The table is presented in alphabetical order by common name. Each column header has an up-down arrow (⬍) that may be used freely to rearrange the order that the list is displayed, giving priority to that column. This has no effect for other readers or subsequent uses and may be used freely.

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks
Symbol Unicode name of the symbol[a] Common name[b] Similar concepts
´ Template:Ucname (freestanding) Acute accent Diacritics (accents)
◌́ Template:Ucname (diacritic) Acute accent Diacritics (accents)
≈ Template:Ucname Approximation Tilde, Double hyphen, Double tilde
& Template:Ucname Ampersand, And sign plus sign, Ligature (writing)
⟨ Template:Ucname Angle brackets Bracket, Parenthesis, Less-than sign, Guillemet
⟩ Template:Ucname Angle brackets Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Guillemet
' Template:Ucname (typewriter) Apostrophe Right single quotation mark ("typesetter's apostrophe"), Modifier letter apostrophe, Prime (symbol)
’ Template:Ucname Apostrophe The right single quotation mark is more often seen as the "typesetter's apostrophe".)
* Template:Ucname Asterisk Asterism, Dagger
⁂ Template:Ucname Asterism Dinkus, Therefore sign
@ Template:Ucname At sign monkey
\ Template:Ucname Backslash Slash, Solidus (/)
` Template:Ucname (freestanding) Backtick
‱ Template:Ucname Basis point Per cent, per mille (per 1,000)
∵ Template:Ucname Because sign Therefore sign
• Template:Ucname Bullet Middle dot
· Template:Ucname Interpunct Bullet
℅ Template:Ucname Care of Look up care of at Wiktionary, the online dictionary
‸ Template:Ucname Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^)
⁁ Template:Ucname Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^)
⎀ Template:Ucname Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^)
^ Template:Ucname (freestanding) Caret Hat operator, Chevron, Caret (proofreading)
◌̂ Template:Ucname (diacritic) Circumflex Combining Diacritical Marks
: Template:Ucname Colon Semicolon
, Template:Ucname Comma Decimal separator
⌘ Template:Ucname Command key also known as a "looped square"
⁒ Template:Ucname Commercial minus sign Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent sign, Obelus
🄯 Template:Ucname Copyleft sign Copyright sign
© Template:Ucname Copyright sign Sound recording copyright symbol
{ Template:Ucname Curly brackets, Braces Angle bracket, Parenthesis
} Template:Ucname Curly brackets, Braces Angle bracket, Parenthesis
¤ Template:Ucname Currency sign (generic) various Currency symbols.
† Template:Ucname Dagger Obelus, Footnotes, Latin cross
‡ Template:Ucname Dagger (double) Obelus, Footnotes, Cross of Lorraine
– Template:Ucname Endash Dash (many types)
— Template:Ucname Emdash Dash (many types)
° Template:Ucname Degree sign Masculine ordinal indicator
⌀ Template:Ucname Diameter Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero, Empty set
÷ Template:Ucname Division sign Slash (Solidus), Obelus
◌ Template:Ucname Dotted circle Combining Diacritical Marks
… Template:Ucname Ellipsis The form Template:Char is usually preferred
= Template:Ucname Equal sign
℮ Template:Ucname Estimated sign
! Template:Ucname Exclamation point Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang
ª Template:Ucname Feminine ordinal indicator Female sign, Masculine ordinal indicator, Gender symbols
♀ Template:Ucname Female sign Gender symbol, LGBT symbols, Feminine ordinal indicator
❦ Template:Ucname Fleuron Dingbat, Dinkus
◌̀ Template:Ucname (diacritic) Grave accent Diacritic, Backtick
> Template:Ucname Greater than sign Angle bracket
« Template:Ucname Guillemet, French quotation marks Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much less than
» Template:Ucname Guillemet, French quotation marks Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than
⚥ Template:Ucname Hermaphrodite (botany) Gender symbol, LGBT symbols
× Template:Ucname Hybrid (biology) X mark
‐ Template:Ucname Hyphen Dash, Hyphen-minus
- Template:Ucname Hyphen-minus Minus sign, Hyphen, Dash
⹀ Template:Ucname Hyphen (double)
⸗ Template:Ucname Hyphen (double)
· Template:Ucname Interpunct Dot operator, Decimal separator
‽ Template:Ucname Interrobang
< Template:Ucname Less-than sign Angle bracket
◊ Template:Ucname Lozenge Square lozenge ("Pillow")
♂ Template:Ucname Male sign Gender symbol, LGBT symbols
☞ Template:Ucname Manicule Obelus (medieval usage)
º Template:Ucname Masculine ordinal indicator Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign, Male sign, Gender symbols
− Template:Ucname Minus sign Plus and minus signs, Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus
# Template:Ucname Number sign (also known as "octothorpe", "hash", Pound sign (US usage) and "hashtag sign"). Numero sign
№ Template:Ucname Numero sign Number sign
( Template:Ucname Parenthesis Brackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
) Template:Ucname Parenthesis Brackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
% Template:Ucname Per cent sign Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000)
‰ Template:Ucname Per mille sign Percent, Basis point
. Template:Ucname Period Interpunct, Decimal separator
Template:Ucname Paragraph mark Section sign ('Silcrow')
⌑ Template:Ucname Square lozenge, Pillow 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name used in the travel industry.
| Template:Ucname Pipe
+ Template:Ucname Plus sign minus sign, ampersand
± Template:Ucname plus or minus minus or plus
′ Template:Ucname Prime symbol foot (unit)
″ Template:Ucname Prime symbol Inch, Minute
‴ Template:Ucname Prime symbol Second
? Template:Ucname Question mark Inverted question mark, Interrobang
Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content." Template:Ucname (typewriter) Quotation mark (double) Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Guillemets
“ Template:Ucname (Curly) Quotation mark (double) Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime
” Template:Ucname (Curly) Quotation mark (double) Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime
‘ Template:Ucname Quotation mark (single) Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.U+2018 ‘ Script error: No such module "Unicode data".
’ Template:Ucname Quotation mark (single) Apostrophe (The right single quotation mark is more often seen as the "typesetter's apostrophe".)
® Template:Ucname Registered trademark Trademark symbols
§ Template:Ucname Section symbol section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' (after Pilcrow)
; Template:Ucname Semicolon Greek question mark
℠ Template:Ucname Service mark Trademark symbols
⚹ Template:Ucname Sextile Star symbols
/ Template:Ucname Slash Called "slant" in ASCII. Division sign, Forward slash, Shilling sign, Virgule
℗ Template:Ucname Sound recording copyright Copyright sign
[ Template:Ucname Square brackets Angle bracket, Parenthesis
] Template:Ucname Square brackets Angle bracket, Parenthesis
∴ Template:Ucname Therefore sign Asterism, Because sign
⁀ Template:Ucname Tie (typography)
~ Template:Ucname (freestanding) Tilde Approximation, Wave dash, Double tilde
◌̃ Template:Ucname (diacritic) Tilde Diacritic
™ Template:Ucname Trademark symbol Registered trade mark
_ Template:Ucname Underscore Underline
¡ Template:Ucname Upside-down exclamation point Inverted question and exclamation marks
¿ Template:Ucname Upside-down question mark Inverted question and exclamation marks

More symbols

Notes

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  1. ^ As defined in the Unicode standards
  2. ^ Name of Wikipedia article, if different from the Unicode name, or a major English-language variant (such as 'full-stop' and 'period').

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