List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below.

In this table:

• The first cell in each row gives a symbol;
• The second is the name assigned to it by the Unicode Consortium;
• The third gives its most common alias or name in another major variety of English, (e.g., period for full stop) otherwise the Unicode name is repeated to facilitate sorting;
• The fourth lists closely related concepts or glyphs, or adds a clarification note.

The table is presented in alphabetical order by common name. Each column header has an up-down arrow (⬍) that may be used freely to rearrange the order that the list is displayed, giving priority to that column.

More symbols

• Astronomical symbols– Symbols in astronomy
• Botany §Symbols
• Braille
• Chemical symbol– Abbreviations used in chemistry
• Chinese punctuation– Punctuation used with Chinese characters
• Currency symbol– Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name
• Diacritic– Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.)
• Electronics symbols
• Hazard symbol
• Hebrew punctuation– Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time
• Glossary of mathematical symbols
• International Code of Signals (using flags)
• International Symbol of Access
• Japanese punctuation
• Korean punctuation
• Media control symbols
• Ordinal indicator– Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1st,2nd,3rd,4thor (though not in English)1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).
• Power symbol
• List of currency symbols currently in use
• List of logic symbols
• List of Japanese typographic symbols
• List of mathematical symbols by subject
• List of common physics notations
• List of typographic features
• Category:Typographical symbols

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