List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
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[a] | 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 | |
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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 | |
| ※ | Reference mark | Asterisk, Dagger | Footnote |
| ¤ | 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, Forward Slash | 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
[edit]- 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
- 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 or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).
Lists of other typographic entities
[edit]- List of currency symbols currently in use
- List of logic symbols
- List of Japanese typographic symbols
- List of mathematical symbols by subject
- List of common physics notations
- List of typographic features