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 belowIn this table,
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| ◌́ | Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex | |||
| ❦ ❧ | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron | ||
| ≈ | Tilde, Double hyphen | Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde | ||
| &</big> | plus sign | Ligature (writing) | ||
| ⟨ ⟩ | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign, Guillemet | Bracket | |
| ' ’ | Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave | Quotation marks in English, Possessive | ||
| * | Asterism, Dagger | |||
| ⁂ | Dinkus, Therefore sign | |||
| @ | ||||
| \ | Slash, Solidus (/) | |||
| ` | Backtick (non-Unicode name) | ('Backtick' is an alias for the grave accent symbol) | ||
| ‱ | Basis point (per ten thousand) | Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) | ||
| ∵ | Therefore sign | |||
| [] | Brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | ||
| • | Interpunct | |||
| ‸ ⁁ ⎀ | Caret (computing) (^) | |||
| ⟨ ⟩ | Chevron (non-Unicode name) | |||
| ^ | Circumflex (symbol) | Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) | Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator | |
| ◌̂ | Circumflex (diacritic) | Grave, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic | |
| : | Semicolon | |||
| , | Cedilla, Decimal separator | |||
| ⁒ | Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent, Obelus | |||
| , (ɔ) | Copyright sign | |||
| © | Sound recording copyright | Circled latin capital letter C | ||
| ¤ | Square lozenge ("Pillow") | various Currency symbols | ||
| † ‡ | Obelus | |||
| Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign | ||||
| ° | Masculine ordinal indicator | |||
| * * * | Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat | |||
| (many) | Dinkus, Fleuron | |||
| ⌀ | Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set | |||
| " | Quotation mark | |||
| ÷ | Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus | |||
| ◌ | Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) | Combining Diacritical Marks | ||
| ⹀ ⸗ | Almost equal to | |||
| … | ||||
| = | ||||
| ℮ | ||||
| ! | Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang | |||
| ª | Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |||
| (many) | Dinkus, Dingbat | |||
| ❦ ❧ | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron | ||
| . | Interpunct, Period | Decimal separator | ||
| ♀ ♂ ⚥ | LGBT symbols | |||
| ` | Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers | |||
| ◌̀ | Acute, Circumflex, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic | ||
| > | Angle bracket | |||
| « » | Angle brackets, quotation marks | Much greater than | ||
| ❦ ❧ | Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow | Fleuron | ||
| ‐ | Dash, Hyphen-minus | |||
| - | Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign | |||
| ☞ | Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) | |||
| · | Full-stop, Period, | Decimal separator, Dot operator | ||
| ‽ | Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') | Inverted question and exclamation marks | ||
| ¡ | Exclamation mark, Interrobang | |||
| ¿ | Question mark, Interrobang | |||
| < | Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet | |||
| ◊ | Square lozenge ("Pillow") | |||
| ☞ | Index, Obelus | |||
| º | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |||
| − | Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus | |||
| × | ||||
| # | Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign" | Pound sign | ||
| № | Number sign | |||
| Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index | ||||
| Bracket, Angle bracket | ||||
| % | Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000) | |||
| ‰ | Percent, Basis point | |||
| . | The end of a sentence. | |||
| ¶ | Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P | Section sign ('Silcrow') | ||
| ⌑ | Pillow (non-Unicode name) | 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge' in the travel industry. The generic currency sign is superficially similar | ||
| | | Pipe (non-Unicode name) | (Unicode name is "vertical bar") | ||
| + | minus sign, ampersand | |||
| ± | Plus–minus sign ('plus or minus') | Approximately equal to | ||
| ′ ″ ‴ | Apostrophe, quotation marks | foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second | ||
| ? | Inverted question mark, Interrobang | |||
| “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' | Quotation marks | Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime | Inch, Second | |
| ® | Trademark symbol | |||
| ¤ | Scarab (non-Unicode name) | ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) | ||
| § | section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' | Pilcrow | ||
| ; | Colon | |||
| ℠ | Trademark symbol | |||
| Slash (non-Unicode name) | Division sign, Backslash | also known as "stroke" | ||
| / | Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols) | Division sign | Called "slant" in ASCII | |
| ℗ | Copyright sign | |||
| ⌑ | Currency sign | |||
| ∴ | Asterism, Because | |||
| ⁀ | ||||
| ~ | Tilde (symbol) | |||
| ◌̃ | Tilde (diacritic) | Circumflex, Grave | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic | |
| ™ | Registered trade mark | |||
| _ | ||||
| | | also known as a 'pipe' | |||
| / | Slash | Virgule (disambiguation) |