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& UTF / Unicode Characters & Symbols
How to Enter Symbol:
Alt-0160 provides a non-breaking space, useful for making
a multi-part first name look like one string in a database or keeping a space from breaking across lines. See more on spaces and half spaces at the bottom of this page. .
Alt-0173 provides a non-breaking hyphen for when you want a hyphenated word to
stick together (NOT break across lines). Non-breaking hyphen: ‑
GENERAL |
FINANCIAL |
MATH & |
SCIENCE |
SPANISH |
GERMAN |
CODE | SYMBOL | CODE | SYMBOL | CODE | SYMBOL | CODE | SYMBOL | CODE | SYMBOL | CODE | SYMBOL |
0127 | | 0128 | € | 0129 | | 0130 | ‚ | 0131 | ƒ | 0132 | „ |
0133 | … | 0134 | † | 0135 | ‡ | 0136 | ˆ | 0137 | ‰ (per thousand) |
0138 | Š |
0139 | ‹ | 0140 | Œ | 0141 | | 0142 | Ž | 0143 | | 0144 | |
0145 | ‘ | 0146 | ’ | 0147 | “ | 0148 | ” | 0149 | • | 0150 | — |
0151 | – | 0152 | ˜ | 0153 | ™ | 0154 | š | 0155 | › | 0156 | œ |
0157 | | 0158 | ž | 0159 | Ÿ | 0160 | See note* | 0161 | ¡ | 0162 | ¢ |
0163 | £ | 0164 | ¤ | 0165 | ¥ | 0166 | ¦ | 0167 | § | 0168 | ¨ |
0169 | © | 0170 | ª | 0171 | « | 0172 | ¬ | 0173 | | 0174 | ® |
0175 | ¯ | 0176 | ° | 0177 | ± | 0178 | ² | 0179 | ³ | 0180 | ´ |
0181 | µ | 0182 | ¶ | 0183 | · | 0184 | ¸ | 0185 | ¹ | 0186 | º |
0187 | » | 0188 | ¼ | 0189 | ½ | 0190 | ¾ | 0191 | ¿ | 0192 | À |
0193 | Á | 0194 | Â | 0195 | Ã | 0196 | Ä | 0197 | Å | 0198 | Æ |
0199 | Ç | 0200 | È | 0201 | É | 0202 | Ê | 0203 | Ë | 0204 | Ì |
0205 | Í | 0206 | Î | 0207 | Ï | 0208 | Ð | 0209 | Ñ | 0210 | Ò |
0211 | Ó | 0212 | Ô | 0213 | Õ | 0214 | Ö | 0215 | × | 0216 | Ø |
0217 | Ù | 0218 | Ú | 0219 | Û | 0220 | Ü | 0221 | Ý | 0222 | Þ |
0223 | ß | 0224 | à | 0225 | á | 0226 | â | 0227 | ã | 0228 | ä |
0229 | å | 0230 | æ | 0231 | ç | 0232 | è | 0233 | é | 0234 | ê |
0235 | ë | 0236 | ì | 0237 | í | 0238 | î | 0239 | ï | 0240 | ð |
0241 | ñ | 0242 | ò | 0243 | ó | 0244 | ô | 0245 | õ | 0246 | ö |
0247 | ÷ | 0248 | ø | 0249 | ù | 0250 | ú | 0251 | û | 0252 | ü |
0253 | ý | 0254 | þ | 0255 | ÿ | 0000 | 224 | α | 225 | ß | |
226 | Γ | 227 | π | 228 | Σ | 229 | σ | 230 | µ | 231 | τ |
232 | Φ | 233 | Θ | 234 | Ω | 235 | δ | 236 | ∞ | 237 | φ |
238 | ε | 239 | ∩ | 240 | ≡ | 241 | ± | 242 | ≥ | 243 | ≤ |
244 | ⌠ | 245 | ⌡ | 246 | ÷ | 248 | ° | 249 | ∙ | 250 | · |
251 | √ | 252 | ⁿ | 253 | ² | 254 | ■ | ** | ₩ | Currrency symbols on Wikipedia | $ |
&cong | ≅ | Danish small [oe] | ø | − | minus | 2610 | 8353 *** |
₡ | 8373 (Ghana Cedi, not US ¢) |
₵ | |
2672 | ♲ |
Pronunciation Clarifiers (AKA diacritical marks): ā ē ī ō ū (more here and here):
- A "nonspacing" overline/overbar/vinculum indicates a repeating number or set of numbers, but this does format properly online: ̅
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Methods are available within MS Word to add diacritical marks to characters.
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Overlines are also used to represent a sample mean.
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The macron (line over single character) indicates a long vowel pronunciation: ̄ (e.g. Ō like in RŌKɅ
)
- Combining/conjoining macron: ︦ test: 4︦5
Peace, love & happiness! ☮ ❤ 😊 • Thanks to http://www.fileformat.info for their well-organized library of special symbols and emojis. For clarity, these :) :( are emoticons and emojis are images.
Also see the official Unicode emoji list here for renderings on multiple platforms (PC, Mac, phone, etc.).
⊘ 🍏: Indicates there may be issues displaying this symbol on the Mac, iPad or iPhone. The "info" i symbol 🛈 is a crucial and unfortunate one of these.
Copy & paste the Unicode special characters listed below by [alphabetically sorted] category:
Limitations:
Animals: 🐠 🐟 🐬 🦐 🐳 🐾 🐔 🐗 🐯 🐇 🐌 🐢 🐁 🐘 🐕 🐶 😸 🐈
🐵 🙈 🙉 🙊 😼 🦀 🐧 🐄 🐮 🐼 🐜 🕷 🕸 🐽 🐷 🐖 🐎 🐴 🎠 🏇 🐞
🐸 🐹 🐰 🐻 🐺 🦖 🐦 🦂 (scorpion) 🦎 🦕 🐍 🐝 😿 🐿
Arrows: ▶ ◀ ▼ ▲ ▷ ▽ ◁ △ ⬄ ⇔ ⇒ ⇓ ⇐ ← ⟵ → ⇉ ⟶ ⏏ ➤ ➜
⏪ ⏩ ↗ ↘ ↖ ↙ ➢ ⇨ ⇦ ⇧ ⇩ 🎯 ⏬ ➡ ⟫ ⏎ enter |
⊘ 🍏: ⮎ ⮏ ⮍ ⮌ ⭯ ⭮ ⎆ 🡻 🢁 🢂 🢀 🢆 ⬌
Beach/Tropical/Marine : 👣 🌴 🏄 🏊 🏖 ⛱ 🐚 🌊 ⎈ ⛵ 🔱 🚢 ⚓ ⛴ 🛥
⊘ 🍏: ⛯
Body Parts/Hands/Fingers: 👅 👃 👂 👍 👎 ☞ ☜ 🙏 👋 🖖 ✋ 👐 🙋 👊 ✌ 👌 👉 🤞 Ѡ 💅 🧠
Bullets/Checks/Buttons: (Also see "dashes & hyphens" below.)
| a � | b · | c ⋅ | d · | e • | f ⬤ | e ● | g • | h ● | ⭕
| i ⚫ | j ⭘ | k ◯ | l ❖ | m ⌑ | n ◘ | o 🔘 | p ⊙ | q ⌖ | r ⊕ |
| s ⊗ | t ❍ | u ○ | v ❏ | w ∘| x ◈ | y ※ | z ▣ |
| 1 ◙ | 2 ▬ | 3 ➖
🔘 ⦾ ⦿ 🔳 ✤ 🔲 ░ ▓ ▓ ▒ | ◌ | _ | ⃟ | ◇ | ⬚ |
∎ ■ █ ⬛ ◆ 🔹 🔷 🔶 ⬕ | ✦ ✦ | ✧ ✧ | ☐ ⁍ ⁌ ⁃
⏸ ⌘ | ❎ ✅ (✅) | ✓ ✔ ☑ ✘ ☒ ⌧ ❌
⌖ position indicator | � "replacement character" Q-mark | |
⊘ 🍏: 🙤 🙦 ⯍⯏ 🞴 🞿 ⯐ (square position indicator)
Callouts: (for email subject lines)
📢 ☞ 💡 ⚜ 🔎 ✍ ✎ ✏ ✑ 📖 🆕 ➑
👀 ⌚ ⏰ ⏱ ⏲ ⏳ 📅 📆 👷 🚧
🗓 👓 ❰ ❱ ❮ ❯ ෴ 📰 💥
【 】 🛑 🚩 ⏸ 🎗 ⧉ 📛 (name badge)
⊘ 🍏: ⯐ ⯑ 🛇
Clothing/Accessories: 👛 👠 👟 👞 👗 👕 🎽
Entertainment/Music/Performing Arts: ♫ 🎼 📺 🎥 🎞 🎭 🎹
Environment/Ecology: Also see "Plants" and "Weather/Nature/Planet."
| 🍃 | 🍂 | General recycling: ♻ ♲ Recycled paper: ♼
Faces/Feelings:
☻ ☺ 🙂 😉 😀 🤘 🤸 | 👍 up | 👎 down | 🖕 middle | 🤞 ♡ 🍼 ♫ ☮ ❤ 💗 💕 ♡ 💔 💘 ☯ 🧘 lotus/meditating ⚰ coffin |
a 😏 smirk | b 😄 | c 😋 😜 😛 😝 tongues | d 😊 | e 😁 |
f _ | g ☹ | h 😒 | i 😠 | j 😕 | k 🙃 | l | m 🤔 | n 😢 | o 😭 |
p 😑 | q 💨 | r 💩 | s 💢 (anger) | t 😱 | u 😈 | w 👾 | x 🕊 | y 👽 | z 🤐 |
1 ⚰ | 2 🤠 | 3-ROTF: 🤣 | 4 🤡 | 5 🙌 | 6 😰 | 7 😓 | 8 😅 | 9 ☹ | 10 💤 | 11 😖 confounded | 12 |
A 😲 | B 😨 😱 | C _ | D 😎 | E 🤨 Colbert face | F 🤓 nerd | G Joyful Tears 😂 | H description __ |
I 🤮 vomiting | J 🤦 | K 🤕 head bandage | L 💀 | M 😶 | N 😇 | O 😴 sleeping | P 🤒 sick |
Q 😌 relieved | R 💋 | S 👏 clapping hands | T 🤠 | U 😰 cold sweat | V 😅 sweaty smile | W 😘 face blowing kiss |
X 💦 sweat | Y 🤪 looney | Z 😵 💫 dizzy |
🙄 rolling eyes | 😪 sleepy/snot | 🤧 sneezing | 🤝 handshake |
⊘ 🍏: 🗢
Food/Candy/Drinks: 🍽 🍴 🥄 🥣 🍆 🍌 🥓 🍍 🍿 🍭 🍨 🍊 🍅 🍏 🍎 🍻 🍶 🍷 🍸 🍥
🍦 🍺 🍕 🍩 ☕ 🍼 🍒 🍗 🥪 🍔 🍟 🥜 🥑 🥧 🥕 🥛 🍪 🍄 🥨 🥠 fortune cookie
🍯 🌮 taco 🍳 cooking/egg 🍲 stew | 🍞 🥖
Globe with meridians 🌐 | earth globe Americas 🌎 |
Health/Drugs: 💉 ✚ ☤ ℞ 💊 👓 | 🚭 no smoking | 🧘 meditation |
Holiday/Party/Celebration: 🐰 🍀 🎄 🎅 🎉 🎁 🎂 🍹 🍸 🏆 🍻 🍺
👻 🎃 💀 ☠ 👹 👺 🎗 💐 🎈 🦃 ☃ 🎆 👰🍾 🥂 | 🎏 koinobori/May 5th | 🏮 izakaya/akachōchin |
⊘ 🍏:
Legal: ⚖ (waiting for gavel!)
Letters: ƒ
Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ Ⓓ Ⓔ Ⓕ Ⓖ Ⓗ Ⓘ Ⓙ Ⓚ Ⓛ Ⓜ Ⓝ Ⓞ Ⓟ Ⓠ Ⓡ Ⓢ Ⓣ Ⓤ Ⓥ Ⓦ Ⓧ Ⓨ Ⓩ
🄰 🄱 🄲 🄳 🄴 🄵 🄶 🄷 🄸 🄹 🄺 🄻 🄼 🄽 🄾 🄿 🅀 🅁 🅂 🅃 🅄 🅅 🅆 🅇 🅈 🅉
🅰 🅱 🅲 🅳 🅴 🅵 🅶 🅷 🅸 🅹 🅺 🅻 🅼 🅽 🅾 🅿 🆀 🆁 🆂 🆃 🆄 🆅 🆆 🆇 🆈 🆉
Superscript Capital Letters (no C/Q/X/Y/Z): ᴬ ᴮ ᴰ ᴱ ᴳ ᴴ ᴵ ᴶ ᴷ ᴸ ᴹ ᴺ ᴼ ᴾ ᴿ ᵀ ᵁ ⱽ ᵂ
Superscript Lower Case Letters (no "q"): ᵃ ᵇ ᶜ ᵈ ᵉ ᶠ ᵍ ʰ ⁱ ʲ ᵏ ˡ ᵐ ⁿ ᵒ ᵖ ʳ ˢ ᵗ ᵘ ᵛ ʷ ˣ ʸ ᶻ
⊘ 🍏: 🆊
Love, Marriage & Family: 💑 💎 👰 ⚭ (marriage symbol) 👪 囍 (double happiness) ⚮ (divorce)
Mail/Hard Copy/Print: 📎 🖨 📪 📫 📬 📭 ✉ 📦 Permanent Paper: ♾
⊘ 🍏: 🖶 🖹 🗋 🖺
Measurement/Rulers: ⅊ (property line) ℄ (center line) |
📐 (triangular ruler) | ∡ (measured angle) | 📏 (straight ruler) | ⌱ (dimension origin) | ⟀ 3D angle |
⊘ 🍏: ⏍ (square foot)
Military/Firearms: 🎖 🔫
Miscellaneous: 💡 ⚕ ♿ 👻 ✠ 🏳 ⚑ 🏰 ✚ ♔ ♕ 👑 🤳 ⚜ ⅌ ("per" as a reference to someone, or as a ratio)
⊘ 🍏: ⛨
Money: (Finance/Currency/Card Games/Gambling)
📈 📉 📊 🃏 💰 💵 💸 💱 💲 $ $ € | ₠ Euro-Currency |
Ruble: ₽ | Pound: £ £ 💷 | Yen: ¥ ¥ 💴 | Currency Exchange: 💱 | Rupee: ₹ | Korean Won: ₩ |
♥ ♡ ♦ ◇ ♣ ♧ ♠ ♤ 🎲
⊘ 🍏: 🂡
Music/Sounds/Instruments:
♩ ♫ ♪ ♯ ♭ 🎹 🎸 🎷 🎺 🥁 🎶 | ♮ (natural) | 🔔 🕭 🔕 🛎 📢
⊘ 🍏: 𝅝 𝄠 𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝄆 𝄇 𝄫
Numbers/Math/Logic:
Superscript: In Word, for zero one-hundredths currency, use normal zeros then superscript and underline them. In other applications, try these but don't underline... ⁰⁰
| ⁰ | ¹ | ² | ³ | ⁴ | ⁵ | ⁶ | ⁷ | ⁸ | ⁹ | ⁺ | ⁻ | ⁽ ⁾ |
Subscript: ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉ ₊ ₋ ₌ ₍ ₎
More superscript & subscript numbers here.
💯 ∞ № ⓪ ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑧ ⑨ ⑩ ⑪ ⑫ ⑬ ⑭ ⑮ ⑯ ⑰ ⑱ ⑲ ⑳
Continuing at 21, but different size/style... ㉑ ㉒ ㉓ ㉔ ㉕ ... ㊵
⓵ ⓶ ⓷ ⓸ ⓹ ⓺ ⓻ ⓼ ⓽ ⓾
➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ ➏ ➐ ➑ ➒ ➓
❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺ ❻ ❼ ❽ ❾ ❿ (These look larger than set above ONLY on Firefox.)
ROMAN: 1 Ⅰ | 2 Ⅱ | 3 Ⅲ | 4 Ⅳ | 5 Ⅴ | 6 Ⅵ | 7 Ⅶ | 8 Ⅷ | 9 Ⅸ | 10 Ⅹ | 11 Ⅺ | 12 Ⅻ |
CJK: ㉈ ㉉ ㉊ ㉋ ㉌ ㉍ ㉎ ㉏
✖ Δ ≠ ≅ ≈ ≤ ≥ ∑ √ ⅒ ⅑ ⅛ ⅐ ⅙ ⅕ ⅓ ¼ ⅜ ½ ⅝ ⅔ ¾ ⅘ ⅚ ⅞ | ∃ there exists |
Vulgar Fraction Calculators: 1 | 2 |
⊘ 🍏: ㉐
People/Professionals: 👶 👼 👫 👭 👴 👩 👵 🚶 👮 🚼 ⚥ ⚤ ♀ ♂ ⚲ ⚢ ⚣ 🧟 (zombie) 💃 🕺 (dancers) 🚺 🚹
Phone/Conversation: ✆ ☎ ☏ 📱 📞
Plants: (also see Beach and Weather/Nature): ☘ 🌲 🌳 🌻 🍁 🍂 🌵 🌱 🌷 🌻 🌹 | 🌿 herb | |
Political/Government: ☭ | 🗳 ballot box |
Punctuation: (also see "general writing" yellow boxes in table above):
" Neutral quotation mark | ' Neutral apostrophe | ※ Reference mark | † Dagger | ‡ Double dagger |
⋮ Vertical Ellipsis | ⸎ Editorial coronis | ꧁ ꧂ Javanese left & right rerenggan |
Real Estate/Hospitality/Furniture: ⌂ 🔑 🏠 🏢 | 🏩 LOVE hotel 🏨 hotel | 🚹 🚺 🛁 🛏 🚽 🚿 🛋 | broomstick (han) 帚 | Sweep (han) 掃 | Put Litter in its Place: 🚮 |
⊘ 🍏: ⚿
Religions/Cults/Cultures: | ✝ | ✡ | ☪ | ☥ | ⛪ | ☦ | ☥ | ☬ Khanda/Sikh | ☸ wheel of dharma | | |
Rental Utilities, Services, Symbols: | electricity 💡 | gas/fire 🔥 | recycle ♲ | trash bin 🗑 | litter 🚮 | water 💧 | no smoking 🚭 | smoking 🚬 |
Script & Doublestruck Letters: 𝒟𝒢 𝔻𝔾
Security: 🔒
Shapes/Lines: ⬡ ⬢ 💠 ⏣ ⊡ ⁙ ◬ ⦚ ⌗ 〇 🔻 🔴
⊘ | ⃠ | ⌽ | ⍉ | Ø | ɷ
| ⦵ | ⃞ | ⃝ | ⃟ | 🛆 | ‗ | _ | ⎯ | _ | ﹍ | ﹏
〜 〰 ᔐ 𝆗 ᔑ | ̳ | ﹎ | ⃤
⊘ 🍏: 𝄙 𝄘 ⸾ ⎅
Signs NOT Related to Traffic: | Tag: 🏷 |
Spacers: "hair space" (thinnest) | narrow no-break space | normal no-break space | normal space | medium "mathematical" space |
Speech/Thought Bubbles: 🗨 💬 💭 | "Anger" bubble: 🗯 |
⊘ 🍏: 🗫 🗪 🗩 🗭 🗬 🗮 🗰 (mood bubble)
Sports: 🚴 🚣 🚶 🏃 🚲 🚵 🏄 ⚔ ⛳ 🏈 ⚾ ⚽ 🏁 🎱 🎳 🏀 ⛷ 🎣 | KOM 👑 | 🏆 🏅 🥇 🥈 🥉
Stars: ⭐ ✰ ⍟ ⁕ 🌠 🌟 ✵ ✪ ☆ ★ ✯ ✴ / ✶ ✹ ✸ ✲ ❃ ✧ ✦
⊘ 🍏: ⚝
Technology & Science: ☰ (hamburger navigation menu trigram) 🤖 ✇ 💾 🎮 💿 📺 📻 📶
📡 ⌁ 🔌 📷 📧 🖥 💻 📹 🎥 🔊 🔇 🔈 🔉
⊘ 🍏: ⏻ ⏼ ⏽ ⭘ ⏾ 🖵 🖳 🖰 2-button mouse | 🕪 🕩 🕨 🧪
Telephones: 📞 ✆ ☏ 📱 📲 ☏ | Recorder ⌕ | off 📴 |
⊘ 🍏: 🕻 🕿 🕾 🖁
Tools, Utensils & Search: ✂ 🔨 🔧 🛠 ⚒ 🍴 🔍 🔭 🗡 🛡
Travel/Maps/Navigation/Vehicles/Traffic Signs: 🛑 ⛔ 🔴 | No Entry: 🚫 | 🚀 🏍 🏜 🏝 ✈ 🛸
🚆 🚄 🚌 🚓 🚗 🛴 🏎 🚔 🚒 🚙 ⛽ 🚥 🚦 🚸 🚦 🚥 🚩 📍 🗺 🖈 📌
⊘ 🍏: ⛗ ⮏ 🛇 (prohibited) |
Warnings/Alerts: 🚨 ⚠ ⚛ ☢ ☣ 💣 ☠ 🆘 ✚ 🚧 🚩 ⚡
Weather/Nature/Planet: (Also see Plants and Beach) ❅ ❄ ☃ 🌡 ﹅ ✿ ❀ ☂ 🌂 ☔ ⁕ 💮 ☼ ☀ ❂
🌐 🌎 🌍 🌏 🌞 ⚛ ⚛ ⛆ 🌙 🌧 ⛈ 🌦
☁ ⛅ 🌤 🌪 🌈 🌀 🌂 🌄 ⛰ | ☄ comet | |
⊘ 🍏: ⚝
Full ASCII table is provided here.
Different computer & phone operating systems render special characters differently, so be sure to test before publishing.
Another way to make a superscript is to use the <SUP> and </SUP> tags [in code view] on either side of the digit(s) or letter(s) you want to raise. To make a subscript, use the <SUB> and </SUB> tags. Subscripts and superscripts are inline elements, aka "text-level" elements.
See here for more tips on entering in Microsoft applications. The clover can be entered in Word by typing 2618 then pressing and holding ALT while typing x, but it can also be entered by holding ALT while typing 9752 on the numeric keypad. (Notice this does not work in Dreamweaver.)
Keep in mind that the font you're using may impact whether or not the symbol will display properly.
This ASCII / Unicode character reference is provided by Dan Goese.
Click here to see more "special character" resources in far-right column of Dan's Favorites.
Full, traditional ASCII table is provided here.
OTHER NOTES: