List of typographical

symbols and
punctuation marks

This is a list of the most common typographical symbols and punctuation marks used 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 accents), see below

In this table,

the first cell in each row gives a symbol;

the second, a link to the article that details it, using its Unicode standard name or common
alias (holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a brief summary of the symbol's
function);

the third, symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance
or that may be confused with it;

the fourth (if present) links to related article(s).

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks
Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

Apostrophe, Grave,
◌́ Accute (accent)
Circumflex

Dingbat, Dinkus,
❦❧ Aldus leaf Fleuron
Hedera, Index

Approximately equal to Mathematical operators and

≈ Almost equal to
sign. symbols in Unicode, Double tilde

& Ampersand plus sign Ligature (writing)

Bracket, Parenthesis,
⟨⟩ Angle brackets Greater-than sign, Less- Bracket
than sign

Quotation mark,
'’ Apostrophe
Guillemet, Prime, Grave

* Asterisk Asterism, Dagger Footnote

⁂ Asterism Dinkus, Therefore sign

@ At sign

\ Backslash Slash (Solidus) (/)

Backtick
('Backtick' is an alias for the grave
`
(non-Unicode name) accent symbol)

Basis point (per ten Per cent, per mille (per

‱
thousand) 1,000)

Angle bracket,
[]{} Brackets
Parenthesis

• Bullet Interpunct

‸⁁⎀ Caret (proofreading) Caret (computing) (^)

Chevron
('Chevron' is an alias for Angle
⟨⟩
(non-Unicode name) bracket)
 Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

Caret (The circumflex

symbol is known as a Circumflex (diacritic), Caret
^ Circumflex (symbol)
caret in computing and (computing)
mathematics)

Circumflex Combining Diacritical Marks,

◌̂ Grave, Tilde
(diacritic) Diacritic

: Colon Semicolon

, Comma Cedilla, Decimal separator

Commercial minus Minus sign, Division

⁒
sign sign, Per cent, Obelus

🄯, (ɔ) Copyleft sign Copyright sign

Sound recording
© Copyright sign Circled latin capital letter C
copyright

Square lozenge
¤ Currency sign various Currency symbols
("Pillow")

†‡ Dagger Obelus Footnotes, Latin cross,

Hyphen, Hyphen-minus,
–  — Dash
minus sign

Masculine ordinal
° Degree sign
indicator

Asterism, Fleuron,
*** Dinkus
Dingbat

(many) Dingbat Dinkus, Fleuron

Ø (Scandinavian orthography),

⌀ Diameter
Slashed zero; empty set

" Ditto mark Quotation mark

Slash (Solidus) (/),

÷ Division sign
Obelus
 Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

Dotted circle (Used

as a generic
◌ placeholder when Combining Diacritical Marks
describing
diacritics)

⹀⸗ Double hyphen Almost equal to

… Ellipsis

= Equals sign

℮ Estimated sign

Inverted exclamation
! Exclamation mark
mark, Interrobang

Feminine ordinal Masculine ordinal

ª
indicator indicator, Degree sign

(many) Fleuron Dinkus, Dingbat

Dingbat, Dinkus,
❦❧ Floral heart Fleuron
Hedera, Index

. Full stop Interpunct, Period Decimal separator

♀♂⚥ Gender symbol LGBT symbols

Quotation mark#Typewriters and

` Grave (symbol)
early computers

Accute, Circumflex, Combining Diacritical Marks,

◌̀ Grave (diacrictic)
Tilde Diacritic

> Greater-than sign Angle bracket

Angle brackets,
« » Guillemet Much greater than
quotation marks

Dingbat, Dinkus, Index,

❦❧ Hedera Fleuron
Pilcrow

‐ Hyphen Dash, Hyphen-minus

 Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

Dash, Hyphen, Minus

- Hyphen-minus
sign

Manicule, Obelus
☞ Index
(medieval usage)

· Interpunct Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator

Interrobang
(combined
Inverted question and
‽
'Question mark' and exclamation marks
'Exclamation mark')

Inverted Exclamation mark,

¡
exclamation mark Interrobang

Inverted question Question mark,

¿
mark Interrobang

Angle bracket, Chevron,

< Less-than sign
Guillemet

Square lozenge
◊ Lozenge
("Pillow")

☞ Manicule Index, Obelus

Masculine ordinal Feminine ordinal

º
indicator indicator, Degree sign

Hyphen-minus,
− Minus sign
Commercial minus

× Multiplication sign X mark

Numero sign. Also

# Number sign known as "octothorpe" Pound sign
and "hash"

№ Numero sign Number sign

 Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

Division sign, Dagger,

Obelus Commercial minus,
Index

() Parenthesis Bracket, Angle bracket

Per mille (per 1,000),

% Percent sign
Basis point (per 10,000)

‰ Per mille Percent, Basis point

. Period

Paragraph mark,
¶ Pilcrow paragraph sign, paraph, Section sign ('Silcrow')
alinea, or blind P

'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for

Pillow
the 'Square lozenge' in the travel
⌑
(non-Unicode name) industry. The generic Currency sign
is superficially similar

+ Plus sign minus sign, ampersand

Plus–minus sign
± Approximately equal to
('plus or minus')

Apostrophe, quotation
′″‴ Prime (symbol) foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second
marks

Inverted question mark,

? Question mark
Interrobang

“ ”   " "
Apostrophe, Ditto,
Quotation marks Inch, Second
‘ ’   ' ' Guillemets, Prime

Registered
® Trademark symbol
trademark symbol

('Scarab' is an informal
Scarab

¤ name for the generic

(non-Unicode name)
Currency sign)
 Name of the Similar glyphs or
Symbol See also
symbol[a] concepts

section symbol, section

§ Section sign
mark, double-s, 'silcrow'

; Semicolon Colon

Service mark
℠ Trademark symbol
symbol

'Silcrow' is an informal
Silcrow

§ name for the Section Pilcrow

(non-Unicode name)
sign

Division sign,
/ Slash
Backslash

/ Solidus Division sign

Sound recording
℗ Copyright sign
copyright symbol

⌑ Square lozenge Currency sign

∴ Therefore sign Asterism

⁀ Tie

Tilde (diacritic)

~ Tilde (symbol) Wave dash

Double tilde

Combining Diacritical Marks,

◌̃ Tilde (diacrictic) Circumflex, Grave
Diacritic

™ Trademark symbol Registered trade mark

_ Underscore

| Vertical bar also known as a 'pipe'

| or / Virgule Slash Virgule (disambiguation)

See also

Astronomical symbols – Symbols in astronomy

 Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry

Chinese punctuation – Punctuation conventions used in Chinese languages

Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name

Diacritic – Mark added to a letter

Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time

Glossary of mathematical symbols – Meanings of symbols used in mathematics

Japanese punctuation

Korean punctuation – Non-alphanumeric marks used in writing

Ordinal indicator – Typographical characters ( ª º) (used for the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as
superscript, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th).

Lists
List of logic symbols

List of Japanese typographic symbols

List of mathematical symbols by subject

List of common physics notations

List of typographic features

Notes

a. As defined in the Unicode standards

External links

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/compr

ehensive/symbols-a4.pdf)
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