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
≈	Almost equal to	Equals sign	Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
&	Ampersand		etc.
⟨ ⟩	Angle brackets	Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign	Bracket
' ’	Apostrophe	Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime
*	Asterisk	Asterism, Dagger	Footnote
⁂	Asterism	Dinkus, Therefore sign
@	At sign
\	Backslash	Slash (Solidus) (/)
‱	Basis point (per ten thousand)	Per cent, per mille (per 1,000)
[ ], { }	Brackets	Angle bracket, Parenthesis
•	Bullet	Interpunct
‸ ⁁ ⎀	Caret	Circumflex (Freestanding circumflex is sometimes called a caret)
⟨ ⟩	Chevron (non-standard name)	('Chevron' is an alias for Angle bracket)
^	Circumflex (freestanding)	Caret (Freestanding circumflex is sometimes called a caret)	Circumflex (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
"	Ditto mark	Quotation mark
÷	Division sign	Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus
⹀ ⸗	Double hyphen		Double tilde
…	Ellipsis
=	Equals sign
℮	Estimated sign
!	Exclamation mark	Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang
ª	Feminine ordinal indicator	Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
❧	Fleuron	Dingbat, Dinkus, Index
.	Full stop	Interpunct, Period	Decimal separator
♀ ♂ ⚥	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 (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
☞	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	Interpunct, Full stop
¶	Pilcrow	Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P
⌑	Pillow (non-standard name)	('Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge'.)	The generic Currency sign is superficially similar
+	Plus sign	minus sign
±	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
§	Silcrow	Section sign, section symbol, section mark, double-s
;	Semicolon	Colon
℠	Service mark symbol	Trademark symbol
/	Slash	Division sign, Backslash
/	Solidus	Division sign
℗	Sound recording copyright symbol	Copyright sign
⌑	Square lozenge	Currency sign
∴	Therefore sign	Asterism
⁀	Tie
~	Tilde (freestanding, "ASCII")	Almost equal to	Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde
™	Trademark symbol	Registered trade mark
_	Underscore
	Vertical bar	also known as a 'pipe'
or /	Virgule	Slash	Virgule (disambiguation)