Mathematical, Symbolic, and Special characters for HTML
Note that not all browsers display all these symbols.
Mozilla displays all of them.
Microsoft Internet Explorer displays only some.
Latin Extended-B
Character | Entity | Description
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ƒ | ƒ | latin small f with hook = function = florin
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General Punctuation
Character | Entity | Description
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• | • | bullet = black small circle
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… | … | horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader
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′ | ′ | prime = minutes = feet
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″ | ″ | double prime = seconds = inches
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‾ | ‾ | overline = spacing overscore
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⁄ | ⁄ | fraction slash
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Letterlike Symbols
Character | Entity | Description
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℘ | ℘ | script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p
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ℑ | ℑ | blackletter capital I = imaginary part
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ℜ | ℜ | blackletter capital R = real part symbol
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™ | ™ | trade mark sign
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ℵ | ℵ | alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal
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Arrows
Character | Entity | Description
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← | ← | leftwards arrow
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↑ | ↑ | upwards arrow
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→ | → | rightwards arrow
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↓ | ↓ | downwards arrow
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↔ | ↔ | left right arrow
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↵ | ↵ | downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return
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⇐ | ⇐ | leftwards double arrow
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⇑ | ⇑ | upwards double arrow
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⇒ | ⇒ | rightwards double arrow
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⇓ | ⇓ | downwards double arrow
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⇔ | ⇔ | left right double arrow
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Mathematical Operators
Character | Entity | Description
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∀ | ∀ | for all
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∂ | ∂ | partial differential
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∃ | ∃ | there exists
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∅ | ∅ | empty set = null set = diameter
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∇ | ∇ | nabla = backward difference
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∈ | ∈ | element of
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∉ | ∉ | not an element of
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∋ | ∋ | contains as member
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∏ | ∏ | n-ary product = product sign
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∑ | ∑ | n-ary sumation
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− | − | minus sign
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∗ | ∗ | asterisk operator
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√ | √ | square root = radical sign
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∝ | ∝ | proportional to
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∞ | ∞ | infinity
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∠ | ∠ | angle
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∧ | ∧ | logical and = wedge
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∨ | ∨ | logical or = vee
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∩ | ∩ | intersection = cap
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∪ | ∪ | union = cup
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∫ | ∫ | integral
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∴ | ∴ | therefore
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∼ | ∼ | tilde operator = varies with = similar to
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≅ | ≅ | approximately equal to
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≈ | ≈ | almost equal to = asymptotic to
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≠ | ≠ | not equal to
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≡ | ≡ | identical to
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≤ | ≤ | less-than or equal to
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≥ | ≥ | greater-than or equal to
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⊂ | ⊂ | subset of
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⊃ | ⊃ | superset of
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⊄ | ⊄ | not a subset of
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⊆ | ⊆ | subset of or equal to
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⊇ | ⊇ | superset of or equal to
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⊕ | ⊕ | circled plus = direct sum
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⊗ | ⊗ | circled times = vector product
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⊥ | ⊥ | up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular
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⋅ | ⋅ | dot operator
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Miscellaneous Technical
Character | Entity | Description
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⌈ | ⌈ | left ceiling = apl upstile
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⌉ | ⌉ | right ceiling
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⌊ | ⌊ | left floor = apl downstile
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⌋ | ⌋ | right floor
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〈 | ⟨ | left-pointing angle bracket = bra
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〉 | ⟩ | right-pointing angle bracket = ket
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Geometric Shapes
Character | Entity | Description
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◊ | ◊ | lozenge
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Miscellaneous Symbols
Character | Entity | Description
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♠ | ♠ | black spade suit
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♣ | ♣ | black club suit = shamrock
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♥ | ♥ | black heart suit = valentine
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♦ | ♦ | black diamond suit
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C0 Controls and Basic Latin
Character | Entity | Description
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" | " | quotation mark = APL quote
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& | & | ampersand
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< | < | less-than sign
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> | > | greater-than sign
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Latin Extended-A
Œ | Œ | latin capital ligature OE
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œ | œ | latin small ligature oe
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Š | Š | latin capital letter S with caron
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š | š | latin small letter s with caron
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Ÿ | Ÿ | latin capital letter Y with diaeresis
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Spacing Modifier Letters
Character | Entity | Description
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ˆ | ˆ | modifier letter circumflex accent
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˜ | ˜ | small tilde
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General Punctuation
Character | Entity | Description
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|   | en space
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|   | em space
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|   | thin space
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| ‌ | zero width non-joiner
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| ‍ | zero width joiner
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| ‎ | left-to-right mark
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| ‏ | right-to-left mark
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– | – | en dash
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— | — | em dash
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‘ | ‘ | left single quotation mark
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’ | ’ | right single quotation mark
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‚ | ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark
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“ | “ | left double quotation mark
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” | ” | right double quotation mark
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„ | „ | double low-9 quotation mark
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† | † | dagger
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‡ | ‡ | double dagger
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‰ | ‰ | per mille sign
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‹ | ‹ | single left-pointing angle quotation mark
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| lsaquo is proposed but not yet ISO standardized
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› | › | single right-pointing angle quotation mark
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| rsaquo is proposed but not yet ISO standardized
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€ | € | euro sign
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Reference: Character entity references in HTML 4
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