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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 a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.);
• The third gives 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 the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks

Symbol	Unicode name of the symbol	Similar glyphs or concepts	See also
◌́	Acute (accent)	Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex
❦ ❧	Aldus leaf	Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index	Fleuron
≈	Almost equal to	Tilde, Double hyphen	Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde
&	Ampersand	plus sign	Ligature (writing)
⟨ ⟩	Angle brackets	Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign, Guillemet	Bracket
' ’	Apostrophe	Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave	Quotation marks in English, Possessive
*	Asterisk	Asterism, Dagger	Footnote
⁂	Asterism	Dinkus, Therefore sign
@	At sign
\	Backslash	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)
∵	Because sign	Therefore sign
{ }	Brackets	Angle bracket, Parenthesis
•	Bullet	Interpunct
‸ ⁁ ⎀	Caret (proofreading)		Caret (computing) (^)
⟨ ⟩	Chevron (non-Unicode name)		Caret, Circumflex, Guillemet, Hacek, Glossary of mathematical symbols
^	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
:	Colon	Semicolon
,	Comma		Cedilla, Decimal separator
⁒	Commercial minus sign	Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent, Obelus
🄯, (ɔ)	Copyleft sign	Copyright sign
©	Copyright sign	Sound recording copyright	Circled Latin capital letter C
¤	Currency sign	Square lozenge ("Pillow")	various Currency symbols
† ‡	Dagger	Obelus	Footnotes, Latin cross
–  — (and more)	Dash	Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign	Em dash, En dash
°	Degree sign	Masculine ordinal indicator
* * *	Dinkus	Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat
(many)	Dingbat	Dinkus, Fleuron
⌀	Diameter		Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set
"	Ditto mark	Quotation mark
÷	Division sign	Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus
◌	Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics)		Combining Diacritical Marks
⹀ ⸗	Double hyphen	Almost equal to
…	Ellipsis
=	Equals sign
℮	Estimated sign
!	Exclamation mark	Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang
ª	Feminine ordinal indicator	Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
(many)	Fleuron	Dinkus, Dingbat
❦ ❧	Floral heart	Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index	Fleuron
.	Full stop	Interpunct, Period	Decimal separator
♀ ♂ ⚥	Gender symbol		LGBT symbols
`	Grave (symbol)		Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers
◌̀	Grave (diacrictic)	Acute, Circumflex, Tilde	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
>	Greater-than sign	Angle bracket
« »	Guillemet	Angle brackets, quotation marks	Much greater than
❦ ❧	Hedera	Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow	Fleuron
‐	Hyphen	Dash, Hyphen-minus
-	Hyphen-minus	Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign
☞	Index	Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage)
·	Interpunct	Full-stop, Period,	Decimal separator, Dot operator
‽	Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark')	Inverted question and exclamation marks
¡	Inverted exclamation mark	Exclamation mark, Interrobang
¿	Inverted question mark	Question mark, Interrobang
<	Less-than sign	Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet
◊	Lozenge	Square lozenge ("Pillow")
☞	Manicule	Index, Obelus
º	Masculine ordinal indicator	Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
−	Minus sign	Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus
×	Multiplication sign		X mark
#	Number sign	Numero sign. Also known as "octothorpe", "hash" and "hashtag sign"	Pound sign
№	Numero sign	Number sign
	Obelus	Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index
( )	Parenthesis	Bracket, Angle bracket
%	Percent sign	Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000)
‰	Per mille	Percent, Basis point
.	Period	The end of a sentence.
¶	Pilcrow	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")
+	Plus sign	minus sign, ampersand
±	Plus–minus sign ('plus or minus')	Approximately equal to
′ ″ ‴	Prime (symbol)	Apostrophe, quotation marks	foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second
?	Question mark	Inverted question mark, Interrobang
“ ”   " " ‘ ’   ' '	Quotation marks	Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime	Inch, Second
®	Registered trademark symbol	Trademark symbol
※	Reference mark	Asterisk, Dagger	Footnote
¤	Scarab (non-Unicode name)	('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign)
§	Section sign	section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow'	Pilcrow
;	Semicolon	Colon
℠	Service mark symbol	Trademark symbol
/ (and more)	Slash (non-Unicode name)	Division sign, Forward Slash	also known as "stroke"
/	Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols)	Division sign	Called "slant" in ASCII
℗	Sound recording copyright symbol	Copyright sign
⌑	Square lozenge	Currency sign
∴	Therefore sign	Asterism, Because
⁀	Tie
~	Tilde (symbol)		Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde
◌̃	Tilde (diacritic)	Circumflex, Grave	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
™	Trademark symbol	Registered trade mark
_	Underscore
|	Vertical bar	also known as a 'pipe'
/	Virgule	Slash	Virgule (disambiguation)

See also

• Astronomical symbols – Symbols in astronomy
• Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry
• Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters
• Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name
• Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.)
• Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time
• Glossary of mathematical symbols
• Japanese punctuation
• Korean punctuation
• Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1, 2, 3, 4 or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).

Lists of other typographic entities

• List of currency symbols currently in use
• 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

1. As defined in the Unicode standards

External links

• The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

• Typographical symbols