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These are characters I find myself looking up on a regular basis.
See also Unicode Character Code Charts on the Typography page.
Miscellaneous Characters
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2022
Unicode Information
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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• | • | • | • | 0149 | BULLET Ⓣ punctuation mark of other type Ⓘ black small circle Ⓧ 00B7 · middle dot Ⓧ 2024 ․ one dot leader Ⓧ 2219 ∙ bullet operator Ⓧ 25D8 ◘ inverse bullet Ⓧ 25E6 ◦ white bullet |
Whitespace Characters
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Note: The whitespace characters are displayed in light blue — like this:
0020
00A0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
200A
200B
202F
205F
2060
3000
FEFF
The Ideographic Space (
3000
hex, 12288
decimal) can be used on Facebook to make a blank line. Insert the character, then hit ENTER. Your blank line will be preserved.
Unicode Information
Note: The whitespace characters are displayed in light blue between square brackets — like this:
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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] [ |   |   | SPACE | ||
] [ |   |   | | 0160 | NO-BREAK SPACE |
] [ |   | EN QUAD | |||
] [ |   | EM QUAD Ⓘ mutton quad |
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] [ |   | EN SPACE Ⓘ nut Ⓝ half an em |
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  | EM SPACE Ⓘ mutton |
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] [ |   | THREE-PER-EM SPACE Ⓘ thick space |
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] [ |   | FOUR-PER-EM SPACE Ⓘ mid space |
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] [ |   | SIX-PER-EM SPACE | |||
] [ |   | FIGURE SPACE Ⓝ this is equivalent to the digit width of fonts with fixed-width digits |
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] [ |   | PUNCTUATION SPACE Ⓝ space equal to narrow punctuation of a font |
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] [ |   | THIN SPACE | |||
] [ |   | HAIR SPACE Ⓝ thinner than a thin space Ⓝ in traditional typography, the thinnest space available |
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][ | ​ | ZERO WIDTH SPACE Ⓝ this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification |
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] [ |   | NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE | |||
] [ |   |   | MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE Ⓣ space character (non-zero width) Ⓒ <compat> 0020 |
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][ | ⁠ | WORD JOINER Ⓝ a zero width non-breaking space (only) |
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] [ |   |   | IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE | ||
][ |  |  | ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE Ⓐ BYTE ORDER MARK |
Fractions
⁄
2044
¼
00BC
½
00BD
¾
00BE
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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⁄ | ⁄ | FRACTION SLASH = solidus (in typography) • for composing arbitrary fractions → 002F / solidus → 2215 ∕ division slash Ⓣ mathematical symbol |
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¼ | ¼ | VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER Ⓒ |
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½ | ½ | VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF Ⓒ |
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¾ | ¾ | VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS Ⓒ |
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Superscripts
⁰
2070
¹
00B9
²
00B2
³
00B3
⁴
2074
⁵
2075
⁶
2076
⁷
2077
⁸
2078
⁹
2079
Subscripts
₀
2080
₁
2081
₂
2082
₃
2083
₄
2084
₅
2085
₆
2086
₇
2087
₈
2088
₉
2089
Miscellaneous
Reserved Characters
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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" | " | " | 034 | quotation mark | |
' | ' | ' | 039 | apostrophe | |
& | & | & | 038 | ampersand | |
< | < | < | 060 | less-than | |
> | > | > | 062 | greater-than |
ISO 8859-1 Symbols
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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¢ | ¢ | ¢ | 0162 | cent | |
£ | £ | £ | 0163 | pound | |
¤ | ¤ | ¤ | 0164 | currency | |
¦ | ¦ | ¦ | 0166 | broken vertical bar | |
§ | § | § | 0167 | section | |
ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator | ||
« | « | « | angle quotation mark (left) | ||
¬ | ¬ | ¬ | negation | ||
° | ° | ° | degree | ||
µ | µ | µ | micro | ||
¶ | ¶ | ¶ | paragraph | ||
· | · | · | middle dot | ||
º | º | º | masculine ordinal indicator | ||
» | » | » | angle quotation mark (right) |
ISO 8859-1 Characters
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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Ð | Ð | Ð | capital eth, Icelandic | ||
Ñ | Ñ | Ñ | capital n, tilde | ||
Þ | Þ | Þ | capital THORN, Icelandic | ||
ß | ß | ß | small sharp s, German | ||
ð | ð | ð | small eth, Icelandic | ||
ñ | ñ | ñ | small n, tilde | ||
þ | þ | þ | small thorn, Icelandic |
Math Symbols
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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∅ | ∅ | ∅ | empty | ||
− | − | − | minus | ||
∞ | ∞ | ∞ | infinity | ||
∠ | ∠ | ∠ | angle | ||
∴ | ∴ | ∴ | therefore | ||
∼ | ∼ | ∼ | similar to | ||
≅ | ≅ | ≅ | congruent to | ||
≈ | ≈ | ≈ | almost equal | ||
≠ | ≠ | ≠ | not equal | ||
≡ | ≡ | ≡ | equivalent | ||
≤ | ≤ | ≤ | less or equal | ||
≥ | ≥ | ≥ | greater or equal | ||
⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | circled plus | ||
⊗ | ⊗ | ⊗ | circled times |
Greek Letters
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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Δ | Δ | Δ | Delta | ||
Χ | Χ | Χ | Chi | ||
λ | λ | λ | lambda | ||
μ | μ | μ | mu |
Other Entities
Glyph | Dec | Hex | HTML | Alt+ | Unicode Name |
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ƒ | ƒ | ƒ | f with hook | ||
† | † | † | dagger | ||
‡ | ‡ | ‡ | double dagger | ||
• | • | • | bullet | ||
‰ | ‰ | ‰ | per mille | ||
′ | ′ | ′ | minutes | ||
″ | ″ | ″ | seconds | ||
‹ | ‹ | ‹ | single left angle quotation | ||
› | › | › | single right angle quotation | ||
← | ← | ← | left arrow | ||
↑ | ↑ | ↑ | up arrow | ||
→ | → | → | right arrow | ||
↓ | ↓ | ↓ | down arrow | ||
↔ | ↔ | ↔ | left right arrow | ||
↵ | ↵ | ↵ | carriage return arrow | ||
◊ | ◊ | ◊ | lozenge | ||
♠ | ♠ | ♠ | spade | ||
♣ | ♣ | ♣ | club | ||
♥ | ♥ | ♥ | heart | ||
♦ | ♦ | ♦ | diamond | ||
⇐ | ⇐ | ⇐ | leftwards double arrow | ||
⇑ | ⇑ | ⇑ | upwards double arrow | ||
⇒ | ⇒ | ⇒ | rightwards double arrow | ||
⇓ | ⇓ | ⇓ | downwards double arrow | ||
⇔ | ⇔ | ⇔ | left right double arrow | ||
⟨ | 〈 | ⟨ | left-pointing angle bracket = bra | ||
⟩ | 〉 | ⟩ | right-pointing angle bracket = ket |