List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
This is a list of the most common typographical symbols and punctuation marks used in western European languages. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets, see [|below]
| Glyph | Name | See also |
| ≈ | Almost equal to | Equals sign, Approximation |
| & | Ampersand | |
| ⟨ ⟩ | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign |
| ' ’ | Apostrophe | Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, foot, minute |
| * | Asterisk | |
| ⁂ | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign |
| @ | At sign | |
| \ | Backslash | Slash |
| ‱ | Basis point | Per cent, per mille |
| , | Brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis |
| • | Bullet | |
| ‸ ⁁ ⎀ | Caret | The freestanding circumflex is sometimes called a caret. |
| ⟨ ⟩ | Chevrons | 'Chevron' is an alias for Angle bracket |
| ^ | Circumflex | Diacritics |
| : | Colon | |
| , | Comma | |
| ⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Division sign, Per cent, Obelus |
| ©, | Copyleft symbol | Copyright sign; also ? |
| © | Copyright symbol | Sound recording copyright, Circled latin capital letter C |
| ¤ | Currency sign | various Currency symbols |
| † ‡ | Dagger | Footnotes, Latin cross, Obelus |
| –— | Dash | Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign |
| ° | Degree | Masculine ordinal indicator |
| * * * | Dinkus | Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat |
| Dingbat | Dinkus, Fleuron | |
| ⌀ | Diameter | |
| " | Ditto mark | Quotation mark |
| ÷ | Division sign | Slash , Obelus |
| ⹀ ⸗ | Double hyphen | |
| … | Ellipsis | |
| = | Equals sign | Almost equal to |
| ℮ | Estimated sign | |
| ! | Exclamation mark | Inverted exclamation mark, Interobang |
| ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign |
| ❧ | Fleuron | Dingbat, Dinkus |
| . | Full stop | Interpunct, Period |
| ♀ ♂ ⚥ | Gender symbol | LGBT symbols |
| > | Greater-than sign | Angle bracket |
| « » | Guillemet | Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than |
| ‐ | Hyphen | Dash, Hyphen-minus |
| - | Hyphen-minus | Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign |
| ☞ | Index | Manicule, Obelus |
| · | Interpunct | Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator |
| ‽ | Interrobang | Inverted question and exclamation marks |
| ¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | Exclamation mark, Interobang |
| ¿ | Inverted question mark | Question mark, Interobang |
| < | Less-than sign | Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet |
| ◊ | Lozenge | Square lozenge |
| ☞ | Manicule | Index, Obelus |
| º | Masculine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign |
| − | Minus sign | Hyphen-minus |
| × | Multiplication sign | X mark |
| # | Number sign | Numero sign, Pound sign |
| № | Numero sign | Number sign |
| Obelus | Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index | |
| Parenthesis | Bracket, Angle bracket | |
| % | Percent sign | Per mille, Basis point |
| ‰ | Per mille | Percent, Basis point |
| . | Period | Interpunct, Full stop |
| ¶ | Pilcrow | Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P |
| ¤ | Pillow | 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the generic currency sign. |
| + | Plus sign | minus sign |
| ± | Plus–minus sign | Approximately equal to |
| ′ ″ ‴ | Prime | Apostrophe, quotation marks, foot, Inch, Minute, Second |
| ? | Question mark | Inverted question mark, Interobang |
| “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' | Quotation marks | Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime, Inch, Second |
| ® | Registered trademark symbol | Trademark symbol |
| § | Silcrow | Section sign, section symbol, section mark, double-s |
| ; | Semicolon | |
| ℠ | Service mark symbol | Trademark symbol |
| / | Slash | Division sign, Backslash |
| / | Solidus | Division sign |
| ℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol | Copyright sign |
| ⌑ | Square lozenge | |
| ∴ | Therefore sign | Asterism |
| ⁀ | Tie | |
| ~ | Tilde | Almost equal to, Wave dash |
| ™ | Trademark symbol | Registered trade mark |
| _ | Underscore | |
| | | Vertical bar | |
| | or / | Virgule | Virgule |