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 a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.);
- The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
- The fourth (if present) links to the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.
Symbol | Unicode name of the symbol[lower-alpha 1] | Similar glyphs or concepts | See also |
---|---|---|---|
◌́ | Acute (accent) | Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex | |
❦ ❧ | Aldus leaf | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron |
≈ | Almost equal to | Tilde, Double hyphen | Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde |
& | Ampersand | plus sign | Ligature (writing) |
⟨ ⟩ | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign, Guillemet | Bracket |
' ’ | Apostrophe | Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave | Quotation marks in English, Possessive |
* | Asterisk | Asterism, Dagger | Footnote |
⁂ | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign | |
@ | At sign | ||
\ | Backslash | Slash, Solidus (/) | |
` | Backtick (non-Unicode name) | ('Backtick' is an alias for the grave accent symbol) | |
‱ | Basis point (per ten thousand) | Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) | |
∵ | Because sign | Therefore sign | |
[ ] { } | Brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | |
• | Bullet | Interpunct | |
‸ ⁁ ⎀ | Caret (proofreading) | Caret (computing) (^) | |
⟨ ⟩ | Chevron (non-Unicode name) | Caret, Circumflex, Guillemet, Hacek, Glossary of mathematical symbols | |
^ | Circumflex (symbol) | Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) | Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator |
◌̂ | Circumflex (diacritic) | Grave, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
: | Colon | Semicolon | |
, | Comma | Cedilla, Decimal separator | |
⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent, Obelus | |
🄯, (ɔ) | Copyleft sign | Copyright sign | |
© | Copyright sign | Sound recording copyright | Circled latin capital letter C |
¤ | Currency sign | Square lozenge ("Pillow") | various Currency symbols |
† ‡ | Dagger | Obelus | Footnotes, Latin cross |
– — (and more) | Dash | Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign | Em dash, En dash |
° | Degree sign | Masculine ordinal indicator | |
* * * | Dinkus | Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat | |
(many) | Dingbat | Dinkus, Fleuron | |
⌀ | Diameter | Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set | |
" | Ditto mark | Quotation mark | |
÷ | Division sign | Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus | |
◌ | Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) | Combining Diacritical Marks | |
⹀ ⸗ | Double hyphen | Almost equal to | |
… | Ellipsis | ||
= | Equals sign | ||
℮ | Estimated sign | ||
! | Exclamation mark | Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang | |
ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |
(many) | Fleuron | Dinkus, Dingbat | |
❦ ❧ | Floral heart | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron |
. | Full stop | Interpunct, Period | Decimal separator |
♀ ♂ ⚥ | Gender symbol | LGBT symbols | |
` | Grave (symbol) | Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers | |
◌̀ | Grave (diacrictic) | Acute, Circumflex, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
> | Greater-than sign | Angle bracket | |
« » | Guillemet | Angle brackets, quotation marks | Much greater than |
❦ ❧ | Hedera | Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow | Fleuron |
‐ | Hyphen | Dash, Hyphen-minus | |
- | Hyphen-minus | Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign | |
☞ | Index | Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) | |
· | Interpunct | Full-stop, Period, | Decimal separator, Dot operator |
‽ | Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') | Inverted question and exclamation marks | |
¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | Exclamation mark, Interrobang | |
¿ | Inverted question mark | Question mark, Interrobang | |
< | Less-than sign | Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet | |
◊ | Lozenge | Square lozenge ("Pillow") | |
☞ | Manicule | Index, Obelus | |
º | Masculine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |
− | Minus sign | Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus | |
× | Multiplication sign | X mark | |
# | Number sign | Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" | Pound sign |
№ | Numero sign | Number sign | |
![]() | Obelus | Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index | |
( ) | Parenthesis | Bracket, Angle bracket | |
% | Percent sign | Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000) | |
‰ | Per mille | Percent, Basis point | |
. | Period | The end of a sentence. | |
¶ | Pilcrow | Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P | Section sign ('Silcrow') |
⌑ | Pillow (non-Unicode name) | 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge' in the travel industry. The generic currency sign is superficially similar | |
| | Pipe (non-Unicode name) | (Unicode name is "vertical bar") | |
+ | Plus sign | minus sign, ampersand | |
± | Plus–minus sign ('plus or minus') | Approximately equal to | |
′ ″ ‴ | Prime (symbol) | Apostrophe, quotation marks | foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second |
? | Question mark | Inverted question mark, Interrobang | |
“ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' | Quotation marks | Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime | Inch, Second |
® | Registered trademark symbol | Trademark symbol | |
¤ | Scarab (non-Unicode name) | ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) | |
§ | Section sign | section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' | Pilcrow |
; | Semicolon | Colon | |
℠ | Service mark symbol | Trademark symbol | |
/ (and more) | Slash (non-Unicode name) | Division sign, Backslash | also known as "stroke" |
/ | Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols) | Division sign | Called "slant" in ASCII |
℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol | Copyright sign | |
⌑ | Square lozenge | Currency sign | |
∴ | Therefore sign | Asterism, Because | |
⁀ | Tie | ||
~ | Tilde (symbol) | Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde | |
◌̃ | Tilde (diacritic) | Circumflex, Grave | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
™ | Trademark symbol | Registered trade mark | |
_ | Underscore | ||
| | Vertical bar | also known as a 'pipe' | |
/ | Virgule | Slash | Virgule (disambiguation) |
See also
- Astronomical symbols – Symbols in astronomy
- Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry
- Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters
- Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name
- Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.)
- Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time
- Glossary of mathematical symbols – Meanings of symbols used in mathematics
- Japanese punctuation
- Korean punctuation
- Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th).
Lists of other typographic entities
Notes
- As defined in the Unicode standards
External links
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