HTML Character codes: Symbols
HTML Character codes for common symbols
HTML Character Symbols
Covers:
- [ Playing cards ]
- [ Arrows ]*
- [ Latin-1 ]
- [ Special punctuation ]
- [ Letter-like characters]*
- [ Technical ]*
*(Note that most of these are unsupported in the earlier version of Microsoft Explorer, such as 6 and 7).
HTML codes for playing card symbols
♠ Spade suit
♠
♠
♣ Club suit
♣
♣
♥ Heart suit
♥
♥
♦ Diamonds suit
♦
♦
HTML codes for arrow symbols
← Left arrow
←
←
↑ Up arrow
↑
↑
→ Right arrow
→
→
↓ Down arrow
↓
↓
↔ Left-right arrow
↔
↔
↵ Carriage return symbol *
↵
↵
⇐ Left double arrow *
⇐
⇐
⇑ Up double arrow *
⇑
⇑
⇒ Right double arrow
⇒
⇒
⇓ Down double arrow *
⇓
⇓
⇔ Left-right double arrow
⇔
⇔
ISO-Latin-1 Character set : Symbols and currencies
I’ve left out the standard characters – 0-9, a-Z, etc, for obvious reasons. This list is not exhaustive.
& Ampersand
&
&
Nonbreaking space
¡ Inverted exclamation mark
¡
¡
¿ Inverted question mark
¿
¿
¢ Cent
¢
¢
£ Pound sterling
£
£
Note, unlike the $ ($)dollar, the £ doesn’t transfer well on non British/UK setups
€ Euro
€
€
¤ General currency
¤
¤
¥ Yen
¥
¥
§ Section
§
§
© Copyright
©
©
® Registered trademark
®
®
™ Trademark
™
™
(Not actually Latin-1, but fits here 🙂 )
« Left angle quote ( guillemot left )
«
«
» Right angle quote ( guillemot right )
»
»
¬ Not
¬
¬
° Degree
°
°
± Plus or minus
±
±
¶ Paragraph
¶
¶
· Middle dot
·
·
¼ One forth
¼
¼
½ One half
½
½
¾ Three quarters
¾
¾
÷ Division
÷
÷
HTML codes for special punctuation symbols
• Bullet
•
•
… Horizontal ellipsis
…
…
′ Prime
′
′
″ Double Prime
″
″
‾ Overline
‾
‾
⁄ Fraction Slash
⁄
⁄
' Apostrophe (single quote)
.
'
" Double quote
"
"
‘ Single curly quote, left
‘
‘
’ Single curly quote, right
’
’
‘ ’ Single curly quotes, paired
‘ ’
“ Double curly quote, left
“
“
” Double curly quote, right
”
”
“ ” Double curly quote, pair
“ ”
.
‚ Single low-9 quote
‚
.
„ Double low-9 quote
„
.
† Dagger
†
.
‡ Double dagger
‡
.
– En dash
–
–
— Em dash
—
—
HTML codes for letter-like characters *
℘ Script capital P
℘
℘
ℑ Blackletter capital I
ℑ
ℑ
ℜ Blackletter capital R
ℜ
ℜ
™ Trademark
™
&8482#;
ℵ Alef
ℵ
ℵ
HTML codes for technical characters *
⌈ Left Ceiling
⌈
⌈
⌉ Right Ceiling
⌉
⌉
⌊ Left floor
⌊
⌊
⌋ Right floor
⌋
⌋
⟨ Left-pointing angle bracket (**)
⟨
〈
〈 〈 (Hex entity instead of decimal works sometimes)
⟩ Right-pointing angle bracket (**)
⟩
〉
〉 〉 (Hex entity instead of decimal works sometimes)
** Note:
(Works in Firefox (v25) and Internet Explorer (v11), but not in Opera (currently v18) or Safari (v5) or even Chrome (v31)