Punctuation symbols
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The following is a list of punctuation symbols and typographic symbols used in various languages. Note: A few of these might not display if your browser does not fully support CSS 4 or above (e.g., Internet Explorer may have problems here).
| Punctuation symbols | |
|---|---|
| apostrophe | ’ ‘ |
brackets
|
[ ]
[ ] { } < > |
parentheses
|
( )
( ) |
| colon | : |
| semi-colon | ; |
| comma | , |
| ellipsis | … or ... |
| exclamation mark | ! |
| period (full stop) | . |
| question mark | ? |
quotation marks
|
‘ ’
‘ ’ “ ” |
| slash/stroke | / |
| Word dividers | |
| space | |
| interpunct | · (a·a) |
| hyphen (e.g., hyphen-ation) | -, - |
dashes
Note: dash & en dash: for numerical ranges, phone #s; em dash: for parenthetical phrase; bar: for quotations. |
-, --
‒ - — ― |
| Foreign symbols | |
| inverted question mark (Spanish) | ¿ |
| inverted exclamation mark (Spanish) | ¡ |
| Chinese paragraph symbol | ○ |
| Chinese full stop | 。 |
| Chinese double quotation marks | 『 』 |
| Chinese single quotation marks | 「 」 |
| ligature, tie
typographic ligature |
⁀ k͜p ts͡
æ œ ʦ ʧ |
| umlaut /diaeresis | ¨ (ä, ö) |
| grave accent | à |
| acute accent | á |
| circumflex accent | â |
| cedille (French) | ç |
| Hungarian heavy “umlaut” | ő, ű |
| caret, or Czech hačet [hatʃɛt] | č, ř, š |
| guillemets (European) | « » |
| inverted commas / quotes (European) | ,, “ |
| General typography | |
| ampersand | & |
| at sign | @ |
| asterisk | * |
| backslash | \ |
| bullet | • |
| caret (e.g., insertion symbol) | ^ |
| daggers | †, ‡ |
| number / pound sign | # |
| numero sign | № |
| percent | % |
| paragraph (pilcrow) | ¶ |
| section sign | § |
| tilde /swung dash | ~ |
underline / underscore / understrike
|
aaa
(aaa) (aaa) |
| strikethrough | aaa |
| overstrike, overline | aaa |
| vertical pipe/bar
broken bar |
|
¦ |
| Math and logic | |
| solidus (math) | ⁄ |
| prime | ' ´ |
| therefore sign | ∴ |
| because sign | ∵ |
| logical negation | ¬ ˜ |
| logical conjunction | ∧ |
| logical disjunction | ∨ |
| universal quantification | ∀ |
| existential qualification | ∃ |
| Intellectual property | |
| copyright | © |
| registered trademark | ® |
| service mark | ℠ |
| sound recording copyright | ℗ |
| trademark | ™ |
| copyleft (free) | (ɔ) |
| Creative Commons license | (CC) |
| Uncommon & informal typography | |
| asterism | ⁂ |
| index / fist | ☞ |
| interrobang | ‽ |
| lozenge | ◊ |
| per mil / per mille /mille (like percent) | ‰
|
| permyriad / basis point / bp | ‱ |
| reference mark | ※ |
| smiley (emoticon) | :) |
| frown (emoticon) | :( |
