With description of usage and HTML entities
Most editors of mainstream news don’t need to refer to many characters or symbols in their work. So, while the exhaustive resource at FileFormat.Info is excellent, we’ve listed the most common ones for blog and news editors in the table below.
Punctuation | Symbols | Numbers | Letters
| Character |
Name |
Usage |
HTML entity |
|---|
| ‘ ’ |
Left and right single quotations marks |
|
‘
’ |
| “ ” |
Left and right double quotation marks |
|
“
” |
| ‒ |
Figure dash |
Breaks up series of numbers (e.g. a phone number). |
‒ |
| – |
En dash |
Shows a range (e.g. of time). |
– |
| — |
Em dash |
Encloses a parenthetical thought. |
— |
| ― |
Horizontal bar |
Introduces quoted text (alternative to quotation marks). |
― |
| … |
Ellipsis |
Indicates an intentional omission of a word or phrase, a pause, or an unfinished thought. |
… |
| • |
Bullet |
Introduces list items (if ‹ul› markup is not possible). |
• |
| ‣ |
Triangular bullet |
Alternative to round bullet. |
‣ |
| ‹ › |
Left- and right-pointing single angle quotation marks |
|
‹
› |
| « » |
Left- and right-pointing double angle quotation marks |
|
«
» |
| ° |
Degree sign |
Represents temperature (or degrees of an arc). |
° |
| ⌘ |
Command key |
Allows keyboard shortcuts on Apple computers. |
⌘ |
| ¶ |
Paragraph sign (or pilcrow) |
|
¶ |
| § |
Section sign (or paragraph sign in Europe) |
|
§ |
| † |
Dagger (or obelus) |
|
† |
| ‡ |
Double dagger (or diesis) |
|
‡ |
| ‖ |
Double pipes |
|
‖ |
| ↑ |
Upwards arrow |
|
↑ |
| → |
Rightwards arrow |
|
→ |
| ↓ |
Downwards arrow |
|
↓ |
| ← |
Leftwards arrow |
|
← |
| © |
Copyright sign |
|
© |
| ® |
Registered (or registered trademark) sign |
|
® |
| ™ |
Trademark sign |
|
™ |
| ¢ |
Cent sign |
|
¢ |
| € |
Euro currency sign |
|
€ |
| £ |
Pound sterling sign |
|
£ |
| × |
Multiplication sign |
|
× |
| ÷ |
Division sign (or obelus) |
|
÷ |
| − |
Minus sign |
|
− |
| ½ |
Fraction one half |
|
½ |
| ⅓ |
Fraction one third |
|
⅓ |
| ⅔ |
Fraction two thirds |
|
⅔ |
| ¼ |
Fraction one fourth |
|
¼ |
| ¾ |
Fraction three fourths |
|
¾ |
| ⅕ |
Fraction one fifth |
|
⅕ |
| ⅖ |
Fraction two fifths |
|
⅖ |
| ⅗ |
Fraction three fifths |
|
⅗ |
| ⅘ |
Fraction four fifths |
|
⅘ |
| ⅙ |
Fraction one sixth |
|
⅙ |
| ⅚ |
Fraction five sixths |
|
⅚ |
| ⅛ |
Fraction one eighth |
|
⅛ |
| ⅜ |
Fraction three eighths |
|
⅜ |
| ⅝ |
Fraction five eighths |
|
⅝ |
| ⅞ |
Fraction seven eighths |
|
⅞ |
| ⁰ |
Superscript 0 |
|
⁰ |
| ¹ |
Superscript 1 |
|
¹ |
| ² |
Superscript 2 |
|
² |
| ³ |
Superscript 3 |
|
³ |
| ⁴ |
Superscript 4 |
|
⁴ |
| ⁵ |
Superscript 5 |
|
⁵ |
| ⁶ |
Superscript 6 |
|
⁶ |
| ⁷ |
Superscript 7 |
|
⁷ |
| ⁸ |
Superscript 8 |
|
⁸ |
| ⁹ |
Superscript 9 |
|
⁹ |
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