List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
Updated: 11/4/2025, 3:42:21 PM Wikipedia source
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.
Tables
| Symbol | Unicode name of the symbol | Common name | Similar concepts |
| ´ | mw- Acute accent (freestanding) | Acute accent | Diacritics (accents) |
| ◌́ | Combining acute accent (diacritic) | Acute accent | Diacritics (accents) |
| ≈ | Almost equal to | Approximation | Tilde, Double hyphen, Double tilde |
| & | Ampersand | Ampersand, And sign | plus sign, Ligature (writing) |
| ⟨ | Mathematical left angle bracket | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Less-than sign, Guillemet |
| ⟩ | Mathematical right angle bracket | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Guillemet |
| ' | Apostrophe (typewriter) | Apostrophe | Right single quotation mark ("typesetter's apostrophe"), Modifier letter apostrophe, Prime (symbol) |
| ’ | Right single quotation mark | Apostrophe | The right single quotation mark is more often seen as the "typesetter's apostrophe".) |
| Asterisk | Asterisk | Asterism, Dagger | |
| ⁂ | Asterism | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign |
| @ | Commercial at | At sign | |
| \ | Reverse solidus | Backslash | Slash, Solidus (/) |
| ` | Grave accent (freestanding) | Backtick | |
| ‱ | Per ten thousand sign | Basis point | Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) |
| ∵ | Because | Because sign | Therefore sign |
| • | Bullet | Bullet | Middle dot |
| · | Middle dot | Interpunct | Bullet |
| ‸ | Caret | Caret (proofreading) | Caret (computing) (^) |
| ⁁ | Caret insertion point | Caret (proofreading) | Caret (computing) (^) |
| ⎀ | Insertion symbol | Caret (proofreading) | Caret (computing) (^) |
| ^ | Circumflex accent (freestanding) | Caret | Hat operator, Chevron, Caret (proofreading) |
| ◌̂ | Combining circumflex accent (diacritic) | Circumflex | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| Colon | Colon | Semicolon | |
| Comma | Comma | Decimal separator | |
| ⌘ | Place of interest sign | Command key | also known as a "looped square" |
| ⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Commercial minus sign | Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent sign, Obelus |
| 🄯 | Copyleft symbol | Copyleft sign | Copyright sign |
| © | Copyright sign | Copyright sign | Sound recording copyright symbol |
| { | Left curly bracket | Curly brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis |
| Right curly bracket | Curly brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | |
| ¤ | Currency sign | Currency sign (generic) | various Currency symbols. |
| † | Dagger | Dagger | Obelus, Footnotes, Latin cross |
| ‡ | Double dagger | Dagger (double) | Obelus, Footnotes, Cross of Lorraine |
| – | En dash | Endash | Dash (many types) |
| — | Em dash | Emdash | Dash (many types) |
| ° | Degree sign | Degree sign | Masculine ordinal indicator |
| ⌀ | Diameter sign | Diameter | Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero, Empty set |
| ÷ | Division sign | Division sign | Slash (Solidus), Obelus |
| ◌ | Dotted circle | Dotted circle | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| … | Horizontal ellipsis | Ellipsis | The form . . . is usually preferred |
| = | Equals sign | Equal sign | |
| ℮ | Estimated symbol | Estimated sign | |
| ! | Exclamation mark | Exclamation point | Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang |
| ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator | Female sign, Masculine ordinal indicator, Gender symbols |
| ♀ | Female sign | Female sign | Gender symbol, LGBT symbols, Feminine ordinal indicator |
| ❦ | Floral heart | Fleuron | Dingbat, Dinkus |
| ◌̀ | Combining grave accent (diacritic) | Grave accent | Diacritic, Backtick |
| > | Greater-than sign | Greater than sign | Angle bracket |
| « | Left-pointing double angle quotation mark | Guillemet, French quotation marks | Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much less than |
References
- As defined in the Unicode standards
- Name of Wikipedia article, if different from the Unicode name, or a major English-language variant (such as 'full-stop'