List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

This is a list of the most common typographical symbols and punctuation marks used in western European languages. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially accents), see below

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks

Symbol	Name	See also (similar glyphs or related concepts)
≈	Almost equal to	Equals sign, Approximation
&	Ampersand
⟨ ⟩	Angle brackets	Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign
' ’	Apostrophe	Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, foot (unit), minute
*	Asterisk
⁂	Asterism	Dinkus, Therefore sign
@	At sign
\	Backslash	Slash (Solidus) (/)
‱	Basis point (per ten thousand)	Per cent, per mille (per 1,000)
[ ], { }	Brackets	Angle bracket, Parenthesis
•	Bullet
‸ ⁁ ⎀	Caret	The freestanding circumflex is sometimes called a caret.
⟨ ⟩	Chevrons	'Chevron' is an alias for Angle bracket
^	Circumflex (freestanding)	Diacritics
:	Colon
,	Comma
⁒	Commercial minus sign	Division sign, Per cent, Obelus
©, (ɔ)	Copyleft symbol	Copyright sign; also 🄯 (Unicode U+01F12F)
©	Copyright symbol	Sound recording copyright, Circled latin capital letter C
¤	Currency sign	various Currency symbols
† ‡	Dagger	Footnotes, Latin cross, Obelus
–  —	Dash	Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign
°	Degree	Masculine ordinal indicator
* * *	Dinkus	Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat
(many)	Dingbat	Dinkus, Fleuron
⌀	Diameter
"	Ditto mark	Quotation mark
÷	Division sign	Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus
⹀ ⸗	Double hyphen
…	Ellipsis
=	Equals sign	Equal to
℮	Estimated sign
!	Exclamation mark	Inverted exclamation mark, Interobang
ª	Feminine ordinal indicator	Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
❧	Fleuron	Dingbat, Dinkus
.	Full stop	Interpunct, Period
♀ ♂ ⚥	Gender symbol	LGBT symbols
>	Greater-than sign	Angle bracket
« »	Guillemet	Angle brackets, quotation marks, Much greater than
‐	Hyphen	Dash, Hyphen-minus
-	Hyphen-minus	Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign
☞	Index	Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage)
·	Interpunct	Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator
‽	Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark')	Inverted question and exclamation marks
¡	Inverted exclamation mark	Exclamation mark, Interobang
¿	Inverted question mark	Question mark, Interobang
<	Less-than sign	Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet
◊	Lozenge	Square lozenge
☞	Manicule	Index, Obelus
º	Masculine ordinal indicator	Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
−	Minus sign	Hyphen-minus
×	Multiplication sign	X mark
#	Number sign	Numero sign, Pound sign
№	Numero sign	Number sign
	Obelus	Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index
( )	Parenthesis	Bracket, Angle bracket
%	Percent sign	Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000)
‰	Per mille	Percent, Basis point
.	Period	Interpunct, Full stop
¶	Pilcrow	Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P
¤	Pillow	('Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'square lozenge'.)
+	Plus sign	minus sign
±	Plus–minus sign ('plus or minus')	Approximately equal to
′ ″ ‴	Prime (symbol)	Apostrophe, quotation marks, foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second
?	Question mark	Inverted question mark, Interobang
“ ”   " " ‘ ’   ' '	Quotation marks	Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime, Inch, Second
®	Registered trademark symbol	Trademark symbol
§	Silcrow	Section sign, section symbol, section mark, double-s
;	Semicolon
℠	Service mark symbol	Trademark symbol
/	Slash	Division sign, Backslash
/	Solidus	Division sign
℗	Sound recording copyright symbol	Copyright sign
⌑	Square lozenge
∴	Therefore sign	Asterism
⁀	Tie
~	Tilde (freestanding)	Almost equal to, Wave dash
™	Trademark symbol	Registered trade mark
_	Underscore
	Vertical bar
or /	Virgule	Virgule (disambiguation)