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 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.

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks
SymbolUnicode name of the symbol[a]Common name[b]Similar concepts
(freestanding)Acute accentDiacritics (accents)
(diacritic)Acute accentDiacritics (accents)
≈ApproximationTilde, Double hyphen, Double tilde
&Ampersand, And signplus sign, Ligature (writing)
⟨Angle bracketsBracket, Parenthesis, Less-than sign, Guillemet
⟩Angle bracketsBracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Guillemet
'(typewriter)ApostropheRight single quotation mark ("typesetter's apostrophe"), Modifier letter apostrophe, Prime (symbol)
ApostropheThe right single quotation mark is more often seen as the "typesetter's apostrophe".)
*AsteriskAsterism, Dagger
⁂AsterismDinkus, Therefore sign
@At signmonkey
\BackslashSlash, Solidus (/)
`(freestanding)Backtick
‱Basis pointPer cent, per mille (per 1,000)
∵Because signTherefore sign
•BulletMiddle dot
·InterpunctBullet
℅Care ofLook up care of at Wiktionary, the online dictionary
‸Caret (proofreading)Caret (computing) (^)
⁁Caret (proofreading)Caret (computing) (^)
⎀Caret (proofreading)Caret (computing) (^)
^(freestanding)CaretHat operator, Chevron, Caret (proofreading)
(diacritic)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
}Curly brackets, BracesAngle bracket, Parenthesis
¤Currency sign (generic)various Currency symbols.
DaggerObelus, Footnotes, Latin cross
Dagger (double)Obelus, Footnotes, Cross of Lorraine
–EndashDash (many types)
—EmdashDash (many types)
°Degree signMasculine ordinal indicator
⌀DiameterØ (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero, Empty set
÷Division signSlash (Solidus), 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
(diacritic)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 (botany)Gender symbol, LGBT symbols
×Hybrid (biology)X mark
‐HyphenDash, Hyphen-minus
-Hyphen-minusMinus sign, Hyphen, Dash
⹀Hyphen (double)
⸗Hyphen (double)
·InterpunctDot operator, Decimal separator
‽Interrobang
<Less-than signAngle bracket
◊LozengeSquare lozenge ("Pillow")
♂Male signGender symbol, LGBT symbols
☞ManiculeObelus (medieval usage)
ºMasculine ordinal indicatorFeminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign, Male sign, Gender symbols
−Minus signPlus and minus signs, Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus
#Number sign(also known as "octothorpe", "hash", Pound sign (US usage) and "hashtag sign"). Numero sign
Numero signNumber sign
(ParenthesisBrackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
)ParenthesisBrackets, Angle brackets, Curly brackets, Square brackets
%Per cent signPer mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000)
‰Per mille signPercent, Basis point
.PeriodInterpunct, Decimal separator
Paragraph markSection sign ('Silcrow')
⌑Square lozenge, Pillow'Pillow' is an informal nick-name used in the travel industry.
|Pipe
+Plus signminus sign, ampersand
±plus or minusminus or plus
′Prime symbolfoot (unit)
″Prime symbolInch, Minute
‴Prime symbolSecond
?Question markInverted question mark, Interrobang
"(typewriter)Quotation mark (double)Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Guillemets
(Curly)Quotation mark (double)Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime
(Curly)Quotation mark (double)Prime symbols,Ditto mark. Double prime
Quotation mark (single)
Quotation mark (single)Apostrophe (The right single quotation mark is more often seen as the "typesetter's apostrophe".)
®Registered trademarkTrademark symbols
§Section symbolsection mark, double-s, 'silcrow' (after Pilcrow)
;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 (typography)
~(freestanding)TildeApproximation, Wave dash, Double tilde
(diacritic)TildeDiacritic
™Trademark symbolRegistered trade mark
_UnderscoreUnderline
¡Upside-down exclamation pointInverted question and exclamation marks
¿ Upside-down question markInverted question and exclamation marks

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Notes

  1. ^ As defined in the Unicode standards
  2. ^ Name of Wikipedia article, if different from the Unicode name, or a major English-language variant (such as 'full-stop' and 'period').