2010-04-19

Symbols []

Punctuation

Name Symbol HTML 4.0 Entity Remarks
parentheses ( )   round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets
square brakets [ ]   brakets
braces { }   curly brackets, flower brackets
guillemets « » « »  
single quotation mark ‘ ’ ‘ ’  
double quotation mark “ ” “ ”  
period .   full stop, dot, point
ellipses …  
question mark ?    
exclamation mark !    
comma ,    
colon :    
semicolon ;    
dash – — – —  
hyphen    
apostrophe '    
slash /   stroke

Typography

Name Symbol HTML 4.0 Entity Remarks
tilde ~ ˜  
grave accent `    
at sign @    
number sign #   pound sign, hash mark
percent %    
caret ^    
circumflex ˆ ˆ hat
ampersand & &  
asterisk * ∗ star
underscore _   understroke
backslash \    
vertical bar |   pipe, stick, vertical slash, thick colon
pilcrow ¶ paragraph mark, paragraph sign
bullet •  
section sign § §  
prime ′ minutes, feet
double prime ″ seconds, inches
therefore sign ∴  

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