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

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks

Symbol	Name of the symbol[lower-alpha 1]	Similar glyphs or concepts	See also
❦ ❧	Aldus leaf	Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index	Fleuron
≈	Almost equal to	Approximately equal to sign.	Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode, Double tilde
&	Ampersand	plus sign	Ligature (writing)
⟨ ⟩	Angle brackets	Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign	Bracket
' ’	Apostrophe	Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave
*	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)
[ ] { }	Brackets	Angle bracket, Parenthesis
•	Bullet	Interpunct
‸ ⁁ ⎀	Caret (proofreading)		Caret (computing) (^)
⟨ ⟩	Chevron (non-Unicode name)	('Chevron' is an alias for Angle bracket)
^	Circumflex (symbol)	Caret (The circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics)	Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing)
◌̂	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,
–  —	Dash	Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign
°	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)	also called a 'backtick'	Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers
◌̀	Grave (diacrictic)	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
‽	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" and "hash"	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 (non-Unicode name)	('Period' is a recognized alias for Full stop)
¶	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'.)	The generic Currency sign is superficially similar
+	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
¤	Scarab (non-Unicode name)	('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic Currency sign)
§	Section sign	section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow'
;	Semicolon	Colon
℠	Service mark symbol	Trademark symbol
§	Silcrow (non-Unicode name)	'Silcrow' is an informal name for the Section sign	Pilcrow
/	Slash	Division sign, Backslash
/	Solidus	Division sign
℗	Sound recording copyright symbol	Copyright sign
⌑	Square lozenge	Currency sign
∴	Therefore sign	Asterism
⁀	Tie
~	Tilde (symbol)		Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde
◌̃	Tilde (diacrictic)	Circumflex, Grave	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
™	Trademark symbol	Registered trade mark
_	Underscore
|	Vertical bar	also known as a 'pipe'
| or /	Virgule	Slash	Virgule (disambiguation)