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, 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.
| Symbol | Unicode name of the symbol | Common name | Similar concepts |
| Acute accent | Diacritics | ||
| Acute accent | Diacritics | ||
| ≈ | Approximation | Tilde, Double hyphen, Double tilde | |
| & | Ampersand, And sign | plus sign, Ligature | |
| Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Less-than sign, Guillemet | ||
| Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Guillemet | ||
| ' | Apostrophe | Right single quotation mark, Modifier letter apostrophe, Prime | |
| * | Asterisk | Asterism, Dagger | |
| ⁂ | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign | |
| @ | At sign | ||
| \ | Backslash | Slash, Solidus | |
| Backtick | |||
| ‱ | Basis point | Per cent, per mille | |
| ∵ | Because sign | Therefore sign | |
| • | Bullet | Middle dot | |
| Interpunct | Bullet | ||
| Care of | Look up care of at Wiktionary, the online dictionary | ||
| Caret | Caret | ||
| Caret | Caret | ||
| Caret | Caret | ||
| Caret | Hat operator, Chevron, Caret | ||
| Circumflex | Combining Diacritical Marks | ||
| : | Colon | Semicolon | |
| , | Comma | Decimal separator | |
| ⌘ | Command key | also known as a "looped square" | |
| ⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent sign, Obelus | |
| Copyleft sign | Copyright sign | ||
| © | Copyright sign | Sound recording copyright symbol | |
| Curly brackets, Braces | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | ||
| ¤ | Currency sign | various Currency symbols. | |
| Dagger | Obelus, Footnotes, Latin cross | ||
| Dagger | Obelus, Footnotes, Cross of Lorraine | ||
| Endash | Dash | ||
| Emdash | Dash | ||
| ° | Degree sign | Masculine ordinal indicator | |
| ⌀ | Diameter | Ø, Slashed zero, Empty set | |
| ÷ | Division sign | Slash, Obelus | |
| ◌ | Dotted circle | Combining Diacritical Marks | |
| Ellipsis | The form is usually preferred | ||
| = | Equal sign | ||
| ℮ | Estimated sign | ||
| ! | Exclamation point | Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang | |
| ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Female sign, Masculine ordinal indicator, Gender symbols | |
| Female sign | Gender symbol, LGBT symbols, Feminine ordinal indicator | ||
| ❦ | Fleuron | Dingbat, Dinkus | |
| Grave accent | Diacritic, Backtick | ||
| > | Greater than sign | Angle bracket | |
| Guillemet, French quotation marks | Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much less than | ||
| Guillemet, French quotation marks | Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than | ||
| Hermaphrodite | Gender symbol, LGBT symbols | ||
| × | Hybrid | X mark | |
| ‐ | Hyphen | Dash, Hyphen-minus | |
| - | Hyphen-minus | Minus sign, Hyphen, Dash | |
| Hyphen | |||
| Hyphen | |||
| · | Interpunct | Dot operator, Decimal separator | |
| ‽ | Interrobang | ||
| < | Less-than sign | Angle bracket | |
| ◊ | Lozenge | Square lozenge | |
| Male sign | Gender symbol, LGBT symbols | ||
| ☞ | Manicule | Obelus | |
| º | Masculine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign, Male sign, Gender symbols | |
| − | Minus sign | Plus and minus signs, Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus | |
| # | Number sign | . Numero sign | |
| Numero sign | Number sign | ||
| Parenthesis | Brackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets | ||
| Parenthesis | Brackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets | ||
| % | Per cent sign | Per mille, Basis point | |
| ‰ | Per mille sign | Percent, Basis point | |
| . | Period | Interpunct, Decimal separator | |
| ¶ | Paragraph mark | Section sign | |
| ⌑ | Square lozenge, Pillow | 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name Lozenge |Square lozenge |used in the travel industry. | |
| | | Pipe | ||
| + | Plus sign | minus sign, ampersand | |
| ± | plus or minus | minus or plus | |
| Prime symbol | foot | ||
| Prime symbol | Inch, Minute | ||
| Prime symbol | Second | ||
| ? | Question mark | Inverted question mark, Interrobang | |
| Quotation mark | Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Guillemets | ||
| Quotation mark | Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime | ||
| Quotation mark | Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime | ||
| Quotation mark | |||
| Quotation mark | Apostrophe | ||
| ® | Registered trademark | Trademark symbols | |
| § | Section symbol | section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' | |
| ; | Semicolon | Greek question mark | |
| ℠ | Service mark | Trademark symbols | |
| ⚹ | Sextile | Star symbols | |
| / | Slash | Called "slant" in ASCII. Division sign, Forward slash, Shilling sign, Virgule | |
| ℗ | Sound recording copyright | Copyright sign | |
| Square brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | ||
| Square brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | ||
| ∴ | Therefore sign | Asterism, Because sign | |
| ⁀ | Tie | ||
| Tilde | Approximation, Wave dash, Double tilde | ||
| Tilde | Diacritic | ||
| ™ | Trademark symbol | Registered trade mark | |
| _ | Underscore | Underline | |
| ¡ | Upside-down exclamation point | Inverted question and exclamation marks | |
| ¿ | Upside-down question mark | Inverted question and exclamation marks |