Xah Lee, 2004-05-05
This page is a attestation of my love of Unicode↗. For its manifesto, and for the diversity of prints of human animal's written communication.
This page is a sample of unicode characters. They are grouped by usage, with character names shown on the left of each char. This page is not intended to be comprehensive in any way. Rather, it showcases some interesting symbols in Unicode, from commonly used symbols (™©®☢♲), to quaint ones (§※☺☾❦), to exotic asians (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ杀), to my obsession the math symbolism (∑ℂ⊗∞).)
If you see lots of squares or question marks, that means your computer doesn't have the required font, or that your browser isn't setup correctly to display them. Most of the common symbols has a entry in Wikipedia you can look up for their purposes and history.
currency sign:¤, dollar sign:$, cent sign:¢, euro sign:€, euro-currency sign:₠, pound sign:£, yen sign:¥, copyright sign:©, registered sign:®, trade mark sign:™, superscript two:²
These are mostly used for quotations. See Quotation mark, non-English usage↗.
left/right-pointing double angle quotation:«», single left/right-pointing angle quotation:‹›, left/right double quotation mark:“”, left/right single quotation mark:‘’, left/right white lenticular bracket:〖〗, left/right black lenticular bracket:【】, left/right corner bracket:「」, left/right white corner bracket:『』, left/right angle bracket:〈〉, left/right double angle bracket:《》,
double high-reversed-9 quotation mark:‟, double low-9 quotation mark:„, single low-9 quotation mark:‚
For some explanation of these variations, see: The Moronicities of Typography.
apostrophe:', modifier letter apostrophe:ʼ, section sign:§, pilgrow sign:¶, dagger:†, double dagger:‡, asterisk:*, low asterisk:⁎, reference mark:※, bullet:•, triangular bullet:‣, per mille sign:‰, hyphen-minus:-, hyphen:‐, non-breaking hypen:‑, figure dash:‒, en dash:–, em dash:—, horizontal bar:―, horizontal ellipsis:…, floral heart:❦, check mark:✓, black circle/square/diamond:●■◆
latin letter small capital ae:ᴁ, latin small letter turned ae:ᴂ, latin small letter turned open e:ᴈ
See also: English Phonetics.
Greek small letter alpha:α, Greek small letter beta:β, Greek small letter gamma:γ, Greek small letter delta:δ, Greek small letter epsilon:ε, Greek small letter theta:θ, Greek small letter kappa:κ, Greek small letter lambda:λ, Greek small letter mu:μ, Greek small letter pi:π, Greek small letter sigma:σ, Greek small letter phi:φ, Greek small letter psi:ψ, micro sign:µ
degree sign:°, projective:⌅, perspective:⌆, script small l:ℓ, right angle:∟, angle:∠, measured angle:∡, spherical angle:∢, parallel to:∥, not parallel to:∦, ratio:∶, proportion:∷
for all:∀, not sign:¬, logical and:∧, logical or:∨, there exists:∃, because:∵, therefore:∴, empty set:∅, element of:∈, not an element of:∉, subset of:⊂, superset of:⊃, subset of or equal to:⊆, superset of or equal to:⊇, not a subset of:⊄, n-ary intersection:⋂, n-ary union:⋃
not equal to:≠, less-than or equal to:≤, greater-than or equal to:≥, not less-than:≮, not greater-than:≯, much greater-than:≫, much less-than:≪, almost equal to:≈, identical to:≡
black-letter capital r:ℜ, double-struck capital n:ℕ, double-struck capital z:ℤ, double-struck capital c:ℚ, double-struck capital r:ℝ, double-struck capital c:ℂ
left/right ceiling:⌈⌉, left/right floor:⌊⌋, n-ary product:∏, n-ary summation:∑, integral:∫, multiplication sign:×, circled times:⊗, circled plus:⊕, circled minus:⊖, circled division slash:⊘, circled dot operator:⊙, circled ring operator:⊚, circled asterisk operator:⊛, bullet operator:∙, multiplication sign:×, tilde operator:∼, partial differential:∂, square root:√, colon equals:≔, plus-minus sign:±
alef symbol:ℵ, infinity:∞
end of proof:∎, prime:′, double prime:″ triple prime:‴
leftwards/upwards/downwards/rightwards arrow:←↑↓→, “north west”/“north east”/“south west”/“south east” arrow:↖↗↙↘, left right arrow:↔, leftwards/upwards/downwards/rightwards double arrow:⇐⇑⇓⇒, left right double arrow:⇔, black left/up/down/right-pointing triangle:◀▲▼▶, white left/up/down/right-pointing triangle:◁△▽▷, leftwards/upwards/downwards/rightwards arrow from bar:↤↥↦↧, leftwards/upwards/downwards/rightwards twoheaded arrow:↞↟↠↡, leftwards/rightwards arrow to bar:⇤⇥, upwards/downwards arrow with double stroke:⇞⇟, anticlockwise/clockwise open circle arrow:↺↻, anticlockwise/clockwise top semicircle arrow:↶↷,
black four pointed star:✦, black star:★, heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star:✸, eight pointed rectilinear black star:✷, six pointed black star:✶, black spade/club/heart/diamond suite:♠♣♥♦, black spade/club/heart/diamond suite:♤♧♡♢, white smiling/frowning face:☺☹, dinbat circled sans-serif digit (1-10):➀➁➂➃➄➅➆➇➈➉
yin yang symbol:☯, the eight trigrams:☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷, CJK unified ideograph-5350:卐, CJK unified ideograph-534D:卍, latin cross:✝, heavy greek cross:✚, star of david:✡, helm symbol:⎈, hammer and sickle:☭, star and crescent:☪
ankh:☥, peace symbol:☮, white smiling/frowning face:☺☹, hot springs:♨
skull and crossbones:☠, radioactive sign:☢, biohazard sign:☣, caduceus:☤, universal recycling symbol:♲, recycling symbol for type-1 plastics:♳
sun:☉, white sun with rays:☼, last quarter moon:☾, mercury:☿, earth:♁, saturn:♄, uranus:♅, neptune:♆, pluto:♇, comet:☄
quarter/eighth note:♩♪, beamed eighth/sixteenth notes:♫♬, music flat/natural/sharp sign:♭♮♯
apl functional symbol circle stile:⌽, place of interest sign:⌘, erase to the left/right:⌫⌦, eject symbol:⏏, up arrowhead between two horizontal:⌤, option key:⌥
Bopomofo↗ is traditional Chinese phonetic alphabet. Romanized version is called Pinyin↗. (basically corresponding to the name of each symbol).
b:ㄅ, p:ㄆ, m:ㄇ, f:ㄈ, d:ㄉ, t:ㄊ, n:ㄋ, l:ㄌ, g:ㄍ, k:ㄎ, h:ㄏ, j:ㄐ, q:ㄑ, x:ㄒ, zh:ㄓ, ch:ㄔ, sh:ㄕ, r:ㄖ, z:ㄗ, c:ㄘ, s:ㄙ, a:ㄚ, o:ㄛ, e:ㄜ, eh:ㄝ, ai:ㄞ, ei:ㄟ, au:ㄠ, ou:ㄡ, an:ㄢ, en:ㄣ, ang:ㄤ, eng:ㄥ, er:ㄦ, i:ㄧ, u:ㄨ, iu:ㄩ
ideographic space: , ideographic comma:、, ideographic full stop:。
我的名子叫李杀
arabic place of sajdah:۩, arabic start of rub el hizb:۞, thai digit one:๑
For more unicode characters, along with their code point and html names, see: List of XML and HTML character entity references↗.
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