Curated collections of the symbols people actually look for, with advice on which one to use.
Each collection groups related characters, explains the differences that matter — text versus emoji presentation, lookalikes that break search, characters that normalization changes — and lets you copy any symbol with one click. Every name links to a full reference page with encodings for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and more.
If you know what you are looking for, search by name or codepoint, or browse the full list of Unicode blocks.
Every everyday arrow, from the plain → to heavy dingbat arrows and emoji — grouped by style, ready to copy.
✓ ✔ ☑ ✅ ✗ ✘Ticks, crosses and ballot boxes for lists, forms and status labels — and which ones turn into emoji.
★ ☆ ✦ ✧ ✩ ⭐Solid, outline, four-pointed and decorative stars, asterisks and sparkles — with notes on ratings and emoji.
♥ ❤ ♡ ❣ 💕Text hearts, card-suit hearts, decorative hearts and every coloured heart emoji.
± × ÷ ≠ ≈ ≤ ≥ ∞ √ ∑Operators, relations, set theory, logic and calculus symbols — and the lookalikes that break search and code.
$ € £ ¥ ₹ ₽ ₩ ₿Every major currency sign, when it was added to Unicode, and which ones fonts may be missing.
• ◦ ▪ ▸ ‣ ⁃Round, square, triangular and decorative bullets for lists, plus how to use them as CSS list markers.
␣ ZWSP NBSPEvery space, zero-width and blank-looking character, what each one is for, and how software treats it.
½ ⅓ ¼ ¾ ⅛All precomposed vulgar fractions, and how to write any other fraction with the fraction slash.
⁰ ¹ ² ³ ₀ ₁ ₂ ᵃSuperscript and subscript digits, signs and letters — including which letters are missing and why.
“ ” ‘ ’ « » „Curly quotes, guillemets and corner brackets, with the conventions each language uses.
‐ – — ― −Hyphen, en dash, em dash, minus sign and their rarer relatives — what each one is for.
© ® ™ ℗ ℠ §Copyright, registered, trademark and service mark signs, plus section and paragraph marks.
α β γ δ π Σ ΩThe full Greek alphabet in capitals and small letters, the symbol variants used in math, and their lookalikes.
⌘ ⌥ ⇧ ⌃ ⏎ ⌫ ⎋The symbols printed on Mac and PC keys and used in shortcut documentation: Command, Option, Shift, Control and more.
─ │ ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ├ ┼ ═ ║Light, heavy, double, rounded and dashed lines and corners for text-mode tables, trees and diagrams.
♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♔ ♕ ♞ ⚀Card suits, chess pieces, dice and playing cards — the text symbols and their emoji forms.
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ 𝄞Notes, accidentals, clefs and rests — from the everyday ♪ to the full Musical Symbols block.
① ② ③ ❶ ⓐ ⒶCircled, negative circled, parenthesized and squared numbers and letters for lists and labels.
( ) [ ] { } ⟨ ⟩ 【 】Round, square, curly, angle and CJK brackets — and the angle bracket that normalization silently changes.