Some Common Unicode Characters
John Gabriele
2018
In Emacs, insert these with C-x 8 RET (which calls ucs-insert) then type the code point. To get info on the character under the cursor, use M-x describe-char.
On a GTK+-based desktop, use Shift-Ctrl-u to insert a Unicode character. On Mac OS X, set input menu to “unicode hex input”, hold down the option key, and type the hex digits.
Character data in the table below was gathered from http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl.
Note: superscripts and subscripts are around U+2070 and above (though superscript 1, 2, & 3 are near U+00b9).
To find a unicode character where you have an idea of what it looks like, try http://shapecatcher.com/.
| Unicode Code Point | Character | Full Name |
|---|---|---|
| 00a0 | NO-BREAK SPACE | |
| 00a2 | ¢ | CENT SIGN |
| 00a9 | © | COPYRIGHT SIGN |
| 00ab | « | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 00bb | » | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 00b0 | ° | DEGREE SIGN |
| 00b1 | ± | PLUS-MINUS SIGN |
| 00b7 | · | MIDDLE DOT |
| 00d7 | × | MULTIPLICATION SIGN |
| 2011 | ‑ | NON-BREAKING HYPHEN |
| 2013 | – | EN DASH |
| 2014 | — | EM DASH |
| 2018 | ‘ | LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 2019 | ’ | RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 201c | “ | LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 201d | ” | RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK |
| 2022 | • | BULLET |
| 2026 | … | HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS |
| 2032 | ′ | PRIME |
| 2033 | ″ | DOUBLE PRIME |
| 20ac | € | EURO SIGN |
| 2122 | ™ | TRADE MARK SIGN |
| 2190 | ← | LEFTWARDS ARROW |
| 2191 | ↑ | UPWARDS ARROW |
| 2192 | → | RIGHTWARDS ARROW |
| 2193 | ↓ | DOWNWARDS ARROW |
| 2194 | ↔ | LEFT RIGHT ARROW |
| 21c4 | ⇄ | RIGHTWARDS ARROW OVER LEFTWARDS ARROW |
| 21d2 | ⇒ | RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW |
| 2205 | ∅ | EMPTY SET |
| 223c | ∼ | TILDE OPERATOR |
| 2245 | ≅ | APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO |
| 2248 | ≈ | ALMOST EQUAL TO |
| 2260 | ≠ | NOT EQUAL TO |
| 2264 | ≤ | LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO |
| 2265 | ≥ | GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO |
| 226a | ≪ | MUCH LESS-THAN |
| 226b | ≫ | MUCH GREATER-THAN |
| 2301 | ⌁ | ELECTRIC ARROW |
| 2318 | ⌘ | PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN |
| 25cb | ○ | WHITE CIRCLE |
| 25d4 | ◔ | CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT BLACK |
| 25d1 | ◑ | CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK |
| 25d5 | ◕ | CIRCLE WITH ALL BUT UPPER LEFT QUADRANT BLACK |
| 25cf | ● | BLACK CIRCLE |
| 2610 | ☐ | BALLOT BOX |
| 2611 | ☑ | BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK |
| 2612 | ☒ | BALLOT BOX WITH X |
| 2615 | ☕ | HOT BEVERAGE |
| 262e | ☮ | PEACE SYMBOL |
| 262f | ☯ | YIN YANG |
| 263a | ☺ | WHITE SMILING FACE |
| 2661 | ♡ | WHITE HEART SUIT |
| 2693 | ⚓ | ANCHOR |
| 2713 | ✓ | CHECK MARK |
| 2730 | ✰ | SHADOWED WHITE STAR |
| fffd | � | REPLACEMENT CHARACTER |