List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
This is a list of the most common typographical symbols and punctuation marks used in western European languages. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially accents), see below
Glyph | Name | See also (similar glyphs or related concepts) |
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≈ | Almost equal to | Equals sign, Approximation |
& | Ampersand | |
⟨ ⟩ | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign |
' ’ | Apostrophe | Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, foot (unit), minute |
* | Asterisk | |
⁂ | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign |
@ | At sign | |
\ | Backslash | Slash (Solidus) (/) |
‱ | Basis point (per ten thousand) | Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) |
[ ], { } | Brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis |
• | Bullet | |
‸ ⁁ ⎀ | Caret | The freestanding circumflex is sometimes called a caret. |
⟨ ⟩ | Chevrons | 'Chevron' is an alias for Angle bracket |
^ | Circumflex (freestanding) | Diacritics |
: | Colon | |
, | Comma | |
⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Division sign, Per cent, Obelus |
©, (ɔ) | Copyleft symbol | Copyright sign; also 🄯 (Unicode U+01F12F) |
© | Copyright symbol | Sound recording copyright, Circled latin capital letter C |
¤ | Currency sign | various Currency symbols |
† ‡ | Dagger | Footnotes, Latin cross, Obelus |
– — | Dash | Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign |
° | Degree | Masculine ordinal indicator |
* * * | Dinkus | Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat |
(many) | Dingbat | Dinkus, Fleuron |
⌀ | Diameter | |
" | Ditto mark | Quotation mark |
÷ | Division sign | Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus |
⹀ ゠ | Double hyphen | |
… | Ellipsis | |
= | Equals sign | Almost equal to |
℮ | Estimated sign | |
! | Exclamation mark | Inverted exclamation mark, Interobang |
ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign |
❧ | Fleuron | Dingbat, Dinkus |
. | Full stop | Interpunct, Period |
♀ ♂ ⚥ | Gender symbol | LGBT symbols |
> | Greater-than sign | Angle bracket |
« » | Guillemet | Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than |
‐ | Hyphen | Dash, Hyphen-minus |
- | Hyphen-minus | Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign |
☞ | Index | Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) |
· | Interpunct | Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator |
‽ | Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') | Inverted question and exclamation marks |
¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | Exclamation mark, Interobang |
¿ | Inverted question mark | Question mark, Interobang |
< | Less-than sign | Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet |
◊ | Lozenge | Square lozenge |
☞ | Manicule | Index, Obelus |
º | Masculine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign |
− | Minus sign | Hyphen-minus |
× | Multiplication sign | X mark |
# | Number sign | Numero 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 | Interpunct, Full stop |
¶ | Pilcrow | Section sign |
¤ | Pillow | 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the generic currency sign. |
+ | Plus sign | minus sign |
± | Plus–minus sign ('plus or minus') | Approximately equal to |
′ ″ ‴ | Prime (symbol) | Apostrophe, quotation marks, foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second |
? | Question mark | Inverted question mark, Interobang |
“ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' | Quotation marks | Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime, Inch, Second |
® | Registered trademark symbol | Trademark symbol |
§ | Section sign | Pilcrow |
; | Semicolon | |
℠ | Service mark symbol | Trademark symbol |
/ | Slash | Division sign, Backslash |
/ | Solidus | Division sign |
℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol | Copyright sign |
⌑ | Square lozenge | |
∴ | Therefore sign | Asterism |
⁀ | Tie | |
~ | Tilde (freestanding) | Almost equal to, Wave dash |
™ | Trademark symbol | Registered trade mark |
_ | Underscore | |
| | Vertical bar | |
| or / | Virgule | Virgule (disambiguation) |
See also
- Currency symbols
- Diacritics (accents)
- Logic symbols
- Math symbols
- Chinese punctuation
- Hebrew punctuation
- Japanese punctuation
- Korean punctuation
- Ordinal indicator (for the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th).
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