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These character sets are not exhaustive, but merely a quick reference for common characters.
These character sets are not exhaustive, but merely a quick reference for common characters.
Quotation
‘ ‘ \2018 Open single quotation mark
’ ’ \2019 Closed single quotation mark / Apostrophe
“ “ \201C Open double quotation mark
” ” \201D Closed double quotation mark
' ' \0027 Typewriter single quotation mark
" " \0022 Typewriter double quotation mark
′ ′ \2032 Prime (Feet / Minutes)
″ ″ \2033 Double prime (Inches / Seconds)
‴ ‴ \2034 Triple prime (1/60 of second of arc)
‚ ‚ \201A Single low-9 quotation mark
„ „ \201E Double low-9 quotation mark
‹ ‹ \2039 Single angle quote left (single guillemet left)
› › \203A Single angle quote right (single guillemet right)
« « \00AB Double angle quote left (double guillemet left)
» » \00BB Double angle quote right (double guillemet right)
「 「 \300C Left corner bracket (outermost)
」 「 \300D Right corner bracket (outermost)
『 「 \300E Left corner bracket (innermost)
』 「 \300F Right corner bracket (innermost)
` ` \0060 Grave accent/reversed apostrophe with no letter
̏ ̏ \030F Double grave accent
´ ´ \00B4 Acute accent with no letter
˝ ˝ \02DD Double acute accent
Punctuation
& & Ampersand
- ‒ Hyphen (Compound modifiers)
– – En dash (Range of numbers)
— — Em dash (Dramatic pause)
… … Ellipsis (Three dot leader)
¡ ¡ Inverted exclamation mark
¿ ¿ Inverted question mark
‽ ‽ Interrobang (?! combination)
⸮ ⸮ Irony
• • Bullet (Black small circle)
· · Middle dot / Interpunct (Multiplication / £1·50)
¶ ¶ Pilcrow (New paragraph)
Ligatures
ff ff Latin small ligature ff
fi fi Latin small ligature fi
fl fl Latin small ligature fl
ſt ſt Latin small ligature long ft
ffi ffi Latin small ligature ffi
ffl ffl Latin small ligature ffl
st st Latin small ligature st
Æ Æ Latin capital letter AE
æ æ Latin small letter ae
ΠΠLatin capital ligature Oe
œ œ Latin small ligature oe
ᵫ ᵫ Latin small ligature ue
IJ IJ Capital IJ ligature
ij ij Lowercase ij ligature
ß ß Small sharp s, German (fs/fz ligature)
Numbers
+ + Plus sumbol (Addition)
− − Minus symbol (Subtraction)
× × Times symbol (Multiplication)
÷ ÷ Obelus symbol (Division)
± ± Plus/minus symbol
< &#60; Less-than symbol
> &#62; Greater-than symbol
≤ &#8804; Less-than-or-equal-to symbol
≥ &#8805; Greater-than-or-equal-to symbol
≠ &#8800; Not-equal-to symbol
≈ &#8776; Approximately equal-to symbol
¹ &#185; Superscript 1 (<sup>1</sup> preferrable)
² &#178; Superscript 2 (<sup>2</sup> preferrable)
³ &#179; Superscript 3 (<sup>3</sup> preferrable)
√ &#8730; Square root
⁄ &#8260; Fraction slash (Solidus)
° &#176; Degree
‰ &#8240; Per mil
№ &#8470; Number symbol
∞ &#8734; Infinity
Fractions
½ &#189; Half fraction
¼ &#188; Quarter fraction
¾ &#190; Three-quarters fraction
⅓ &#8531; One-third fraction
⅔ &#8532; Two-thirds fraction
⅕ &#8533; One-fifth fraction
⅖ &#8534; Two-fifths fraction
⅗ &#8535; Three-fifths fraction
⅘ &#8536; Four-fifths fraction
⅙ &#8537; One-sixth fraction
⅚ &#8538; Five-sixths fraction
⅛ &#8539; One-eighth fraction
⅜ &#8540; Three-eighths fraction
⅝ &#8541; Five-eighths fraction
⅞ &#8542; Seven-eighths fraction
Currency
¢ &#162; Cent
£ &#163; Sterling pound
€ &#8364; Euro
¥ &#165; Yen
¤ &#164; Currency
Diacritics
é &#232; Lower-case "e" with grave accent
í &#237; Lower-case "i" with acute accent
ó &#243; Lower-case "o" with acute accent
ñ &#241; Lower-case "n" with tilde
ë &#235; Lower-case "e" with umlaut
ü &#252; Lower-case "u" with umlaut
ç &#231; Lower-case "c" with cedilla
Spaces
&#32; Space
&#160; Non-breaking space
&#8194; En space
&#8195; Em space
&#8196; 3-per-em space  
&#8197; 4-per-em space  
&#8198; 6-per-em space  
&#8199; Figure space  
&#8200; Punctuation space
&#8201; Thin space
&#8202; Hair space
&#8203; Zero-width space
&#8239; Narrow, non-breaking space
Symbols
℅ &#8453; Care of
℞ &#8478; Pharmaceutical
© &#169; Copyright symbol
® &#174; Registered symbol
℗ &#x2117; Sound recording copyright
™ &#8482; Trademark symbol
℠ &#8480; Service mark symbol
§ &#167; Section symbol
† &#8224; Dagger
‡ &#8225; Double dagger
★ &#9733; Black star
☆ &#9734; White star
☺ &#9786; Smiley face
☹ &#9785; Frowning face
♠ &#9824; Filled spade suit
♣ &#9827; Filled club suit
♥ &#9829; Filled heart suit
♦ &#9830; Filled diamond suit
Keys
 &#63743; Apple
⌘ &#8984; Command
⌥ &#8997; Option
⌃ &#8963; Control
↩ &#8617; Return
⇧ &#8679; Shift
⇪ &#8682; Caps lock
⌫ &#9003; Delete
⏏ &#9167; Eject
→ &#8594; Right arrow
← &#8592; Left arrow
↑ &#8593; Up arrow
↓ &#8595; Down arrow
⇞ &#8670; Page up
⇟ &#8671; Page down
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