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.
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.
Symbol Unicode name of the symbolCommon nameSimilar concepts
Acute accentDiacritics
Acute accentDiacritics
ApproximationTilde, Double hyphen, Double tilde
&Ampersand, And signplus sign, Ligature
Angle bracketsBracket, Parenthesis, Less-than sign, Guillemet
Angle bracketsBracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Guillemet
' ApostropheRight single quotation mark, Modifier letter apostrophe, Prime
*AsteriskAsterism, Dagger
AsterismDinkus, Therefore sign
@At sign
\BackslashSlash, Solidus
Backtick
Basis pointPer cent, per mille
Because signTherefore sign
BulletMiddle dot
InterpunctBullet
Care ofLook up care of at Wiktionary, the online dictionary
Caret Caret
Caret Caret
Caret Caret
CaretHat operator, Chevron, Caret
CircumflexCombining Diacritical Marks
:ColonSemicolon
,CommaDecimal separator
Command keyalso known as a "looped square"
Commercial minus signMinus sign, Division sign, Per cent sign, Obelus
Copyleft signCopyright sign
©Copyright signSound recording copyright symbol
Curly brackets, BracesAngle bracket, Parenthesis
¤Currency sign various Currency symbols.
DaggerObelus, Footnotes, Latin cross
Dagger Obelus, Footnotes, Cross of Lorraine
EndashDash
EmdashDash
°Degree signMasculine ordinal indicator
DiameterØ, Slashed zero, Empty set
÷Division signSlash, Obelus
Dotted circleCombining Diacritical Marks
EllipsisThe form is usually preferred
=Equal sign
Estimated sign
!Exclamation pointInverted exclamation mark, Interrobang
ªFeminine ordinal indicatorFemale sign, Masculine ordinal indicator, Gender symbols
Female signGender symbol, LGBT symbols, Feminine ordinal indicator
FleuronDingbat, Dinkus
Grave accentDiacritic, Backtick
>Greater than signAngle bracket
Guillemet, French quotation marksAngle brackets, quotation marks, Much less than
Guillemet, French quotation marksAngle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than
Hermaphrodite Gender symbol, LGBT symbols
×Hybrid X mark
HyphenDash, Hyphen-minus
-Hyphen-minusMinus sign, Hyphen, Dash
Hyphen
Hyphen
·InterpunctDot operator, Decimal separator
Interrobang
<Less-than signAngle bracket
LozengeSquare lozenge
Male signGender symbol, LGBT symbols
ManiculeObelus
ºMasculine ordinal indicatorFeminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign, Male sign, Gender symbols
Minus signPlus and minus signs, Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus
#Number sign. Numero sign
Numero signNumber sign
ParenthesisBrackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
ParenthesisBrackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
%Per cent signPer mille, Basis point
Per mille signPercent, Basis point
.PeriodInterpunct, Decimal separator
Paragraph markSection sign
Square lozenge, Pillow'Pillow' is an informal nick-name Lozenge |Square lozenge |used in the travel industry.
|Pipe
+Plus signminus sign, ampersand
±plus or minusminus or plus
Prime symbolfoot
Prime symbolInch, Minute
Prime symbolSecond
?Question markInverted 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 trademarkTrademark symbols
§Section symbolsection mark, double-s, 'silcrow'
;SemicolonGreek question mark
Service markTrademark symbols
SextileStar symbols
/SlashCalled "slant" in ASCII. Division sign, Forward slash, Shilling sign, Virgule
Sound recording copyrightCopyright sign
Square bracketsAngle bracket, Parenthesis
Square bracketsAngle bracket, Parenthesis
Therefore signAsterism, Because sign
Tie
TildeApproximation, Wave dash, Double tilde
TildeDiacritic
Trademark symbolRegistered trade mark
_UnderscoreUnderline
¡Upside-down exclamation pointInverted question and exclamation marks
¿ Upside-down question markInverted question and exclamation marks