Punctuation & Symbol Names
Have you ever wanted to know the name of a punctuation mark or a symbol? Here’s a list of both!
NAMES OF PUNCTUATION MARKS
| Symbol | American/Britsh | British | American |
| < > | Angle brackets | ||
| ’ | Apostrophe (heittomerkki) | ||
| * | Asterisk | ||
| \ | Backslash | ||
| ( ) | Brackets | Parentheses | |
| : | Colon | ||
| , | Comma (pilkku) | ||
| { } | Curly brackets | French braces | |
| — | Dash (ajatusviiva) | ||
| “ ” | Inverted commas | Quotation marks | |
| ‘ ’ | Single inverted commas | Single quotation marks | |
| . . . | Ellipsis points | ||
| ! | Exclamation mark | ||
| . | Full stop | Period | |
| – | Hyphen (sidosmerkki) | ||
| ? | Question mark | ||
| ; | Semi-colon | ||
| / | Slash/oblique/stroke | ||
| [ ] | Square brackets | Brackets |
Finnish Virtual University / © 2004 Stotesbury, McAnsh & Pennington
| Symbol | Name of the symbol[a] | Similar glyphs or concepts | See also |
|---|---|---|---|
| ◌́ | Acute (accent) | Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex | |
| ❦ ❧ | Aldus leaf | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron |
| ≈ | Almost equal to | Tilde, Double hyphen | Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde |
| & | Ampersand | plus sign, ‘and’ | Ligature (writing) |
| ⟨ ⟩ | Angle brackets | Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign, Guillemet | Bracket |
| ‘ ’ | Apostrophe | Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave | Apostrophe |
| * | Asterisk | Asterism, Dagger | Footnote |
| ⁂ | Asterism | Dinkus, Therefore sign | |
| @ | At sign | ||
| \ | Backslash | Slash, Solidus (/)forward slash | |
| ` | Backtick (non-Unicode name) | (‘Backtick’ is an alias for the grave accent symbol) | |
| ‱ | Basis point (per ten thousand) | Per cent, per mille (per 1,000) | |
| ∵ | Because sign | Therefore sign | |
| [ ] { } | Brackets | Angle bracket, Parenthesis | |
| • | Bullet | Interpunct | |
| ‸ ⁁ ⎀ | Caret (proofreading) | Caret (computing) (^) | |
| ⟨ ⟩ | Chevron (non-Unicode name) | (‘Chevron’ is an alias for Angle bracket) | |
| ^ | Circumflex (symbol) | Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) | Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator |
| ◌̂ | Circumflex (diacritic) | Grave, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
| : | Colon | Semicolon | |
| , | Comma | Cedilla, Decimal separator | |
| ⁒ | Commercial minus sign | Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent, Obelus | |
| 🄯, (ɔ) | Copyleft sign | Copyright sign | |
| © | Copyright sign | Sound recording copyright | Circled latin capital letter C |
| ¤ | Currency sign | Square lozenge (“Pillow”) | various Currency symbols |
| † ‡ | Dagger | Obelus | Footnotes, Latin cross |
| – — (and more) | Dash | Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign | Em dash, En dash |
| ° | Degree sign | Masculine ordinal indicator | |
| * * * | Dinkus | Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat | |
| (many) | Dingbat | Dinkus, Fleuron | |
| ⌀ | Diameter | Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set | |
| “ | Ditto mark | Quotation mark | |
| ÷ | Division sign | Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus | |
| ◌ | Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) | Combining Diacritical Marks | |
| ⹀ ⸗ | Double hyphen | Almost equal to | |
| … | Ellipsis | ||
| = | Equals sign | ||
| ℮ | Estimated sign | ||
| ! | Exclamation mark | Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang | |
| ª | Feminine ordinal indicator | Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |
| (many) | Fleuron | Dinkus, Dingbat | |
| ❦ ❧ | Floral heart | Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index | Fleuron |
| . | Full stop | Interpunct, Period | Decimal separator |
| ♀ ♂ ⚥ | Gender symbol | LGBT symbols | |
| ` | Grave (symbol) | Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers | |
| ◌̀ | Grave (diacrictic) | Acute, Circumflex, Tilde | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
| > | Greater-than sign | Angle bracket | |
| « » | Guillemet | Angle brackets, quotation marks | Much greater than |
| ❦ ❧ | Hedera | Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow | Fleuron |
| ‐ | Hyphen | Dash, Hyphen-minus | |
| – | Hyphen-minus | Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign | |
| ☞ | Index | Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) | |
| · | Interpunct | Full-stop, Period, | Decimal separator |
| ‽ | Interrobang (combined ‘Question mark’ and ‘Exclamation mark’) | Inverted question and exclamation marks | |
| ¡ | Inverted exclamation mark | Exclamation mark, Interrobang | |
| ¿ | Inverted question mark | Question mark, Interrobang | |
| < | Less-than sign | Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet | |
| ◊ | Lozenge | Square lozenge (“Pillow”) | |
| ☞ | Manicule | Index, Obelus | |
| º | Masculine ordinal indicator | Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign | |
| − | Minus sign | Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus | |
| × | Multiplication sign | X mark | |
| # | Number sign | Numero sign. Also known as “octothorpe” and “hash” | Pound sign |
| № | Numero sign | Number sign | |
| Obelus | Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index | ||
| ( ) | Parenthesis | Bracket, Angle bracket | |
| % | Percent sign | Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000) | |
| ‰ | Per mille | Percent, Basis point | |
| . | Period | ||
| ¶ | Pilcrow | Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P | Section sign (‘Silcrow’) |
| ⌑ | Pillow (non-Unicode name) | ‘Pillow’ is an informal nick-name for the ‘Square lozenge‘ in the travel industry. The generic Currency sign is superficially similar | |
| | | Pipe (non-Unicode name) | (formally, “vertical bar”) | |
| + | Plus sign | minus sign, ampersand | |
| ± | Plus–minus sign (‘plus or minus’) | Approximately equal to | |
| ′ ″ ‴ | Prime (symbol) | Apostrophe, quotation marks | foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second |
| ? | Question mark | Inverted question mark, Interrobang | |
| “ ” ” “ ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ | Quotation marks | Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime | Inch, Second |
| ® | Registered trademark symbol | Trademark symbol | |
| ¤ | Scarab (non-Unicode name) | (‘Scarab’ is an informal name for the generic Currency sign) | |
| § | Section sign | section symbol, section mark, double-s, ‘silcrow’ | Pilcrow |
| ; | Semicolon | Colon | |
| ℠ | Service mark symbol | Trademark symbol | |
| / (and more) | Slash (non-Unicode name) | Division sign, Backslash | also known as “stroke” |
| / | Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols) | Division sign | Called “slant” in ASCII |
| ℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol | Copyright sign | |
| ⌑ | Square lozenge | Currency sign | |
| ∴ | Therefore sign | Asterism, Because | |
| ⁀ | Tie | ||
| ~ | Tilde (symbol) | Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde | |
| ◌̃ | Tilde (diacritic) | Circumflex, Grave | Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic |
| ™ | Trademark symbol | Registered trade mark | |
| _ | Underscore | ||
| | | Vertical bar | also known as a ‘pipe’ | |
| / | Virgule | Slash | Virgule (disambiguation) |
