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This is the complete list of character entity references defined in HTML 4.0.
Not all browsers support all these entities. For example, Firefox and Opera support the double arrow entities but IE6 doesn't. If your browser doesn't support the character it will probably display something like an empty box or a question mark.
This list is copied rote from W3C's Character entity references in HTML 4.0.
&#… | HTML Entity | Symbol | Description |
---|---|---|---|
34 | quot | " | quotation mark = APL quote |
38 | amp | & | ampersand |
60 | lt | < | less-than sign |
62 | gt | > | greater-than sign |
160 | nbsp | no-break space = non-breaking space | |
161 | iexcl | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
162 | cent | ¢ | cent sign |
163 | pound | £ | pound sign |
164 | curren | ¤ | currency sign |
165 | yen | ¥ | yen sign = yuan sign |
166 | brvbar | ¦ | broken bar = broken vertical bar |
167 | sect | § | section sign |
168 | uml | ¨ | diaeresis = spacing diaeresis |
169 | copy | © | copyright sign |
170 | ordf | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
171 | laquo | « | left-pointing double angle quotation mark = left pointing guillemet |
172 | not | ¬ | not sign |
173 | shy | | soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen |
174 | reg | ® | registered sign = registered trade mark sign |
175 | macr | ¯ | macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar |
176 | deg | ° | degree sign |
177 | plusmn | ± | plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign |
178 | sup2 | ² | superscript two = superscript digit two = squared |
179 | sup3 | ³ | superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed |
180 | acute | ´ | acute accent = spacing acute |
181 | micro | µ | micro sign |
182 | para | ¶ | pilcrow sign = paragraph sign |
183 | middot | · | middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot |
184 | cedil | ¸ | cedilla = spacing cedilla |
185 | sup1 | ¹ | superscript one = superscript digit one |
186 | ordm | º | masculine ordinal indicator |
187 | raquo | » | right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet |
188 | frac14 | ¼ | vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter |
189 | frac12 | ½ | vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half |
190 | frac34 | ¾ | vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters |
191 | iquest | ¿ | inverted question mark = turned question mark |
192 | Agrave | À | latin capital letter A with grave = latin capital letter A grave |
193 | Aacute | Á | latin capital letter A with acute |
194 | Acirc | Â | latin capital letter A with circumflex |
195 | Atilde | Ã | latin capital letter A with tilde |
196 | Auml | Ä | latin capital letter A with diaeresis |
197 | Aring | Å | latin capital letter A with ring above = latin capital letter A ring |
198 | AElig | Æ | latin capital letter AE = latin capital ligature AE |
199 | Ccedil | Ç | latin capital letter C with cedilla |
200 | Egrave | È | latin capital letter E with grave |
201 | Eacute | É | latin capital letter E with acute |
202 | Ecirc | Ê | latin capital letter E with circumflex |
203 | Euml | Ë | latin capital letter E with diaeresis |
204 | Igrave | Ì | latin capital letter I with grave |
205 | Iacute | Í | latin capital letter I with acute |
206 | Icirc | Î | latin capital letter I with circumflex |
207 | Iuml | Ï | latin capital letter I with diaeresis |
208 | ETH | Ð | latin capital letter ETH |
209 | Ntilde | Ñ | latin capital letter N with tilde |
210 | Ograve | Ò | latin capital letter O with grave |
211 | Oacute | Ó | latin capital letter O with acute |
212 | Ocirc | Ô | latin capital letter O with circumflex |
213 | Otilde | Õ | latin capital letter O with tilde |
214 | Ouml | Ö | latin capital letter O with diaeresis |
215 | times | × | multiplication sign |
216 | Oslash | Ø | latin capital letter O with stroke = latin capital letter O slash |
217 | Ugrave | Ù | latin capital letter U with grave |
218 | Uacute | Ú | latin capital letter U with acute |
219 | Ucirc | Û | latin capital letter U with circumflex |
220 | Uuml | Ü | latin capital letter U with diaeresis |
221 | Yacute | Ý | latin capital letter Y with acute |
222 | THORN | Þ /* mine shaft (mostly black) */ | latin capital letter THORN |
223 | szlig | ß | latin small letter sharp s = ess-zed |
224 | agrave | à | latin small letter a with grave = latin small letter a grave |
225 | aacute | á | latin small letter a with acute |
226 | acirc | â | latin small letter a with circumflex |
227 | atilde | ã | latin small letter a with tilde |
228 | auml | ä | latin small letter a with diaeresis |
229 | aring | å | latin small letter a with ring above = latin small letter a ring |
230 | aelig | æ | latin small letter ae = latin small ligature ae |
231 | ccedil | ç | latin small letter c with cedilla |
232 | egrave | è | latin small letter e with grave |
233 | eacute | é | latin small letter e with acute |
234 | ecirc | ê | latin small letter e with circumflex |
235 | euml | ë | latin small letter e with diaeresis |
236 | igrave | ì | latin small letter i with grave |
237 | iacute | í | latin small letter i with acute |
238 | icirc | î | latin small letter i with circumflex |
239 | iuml | ï | latin small letter i with diaeresis |
240 | eth | ð | latin small letter eth |
241 | ntilde | ñ | latin small letter n with tilde |
242 | ograve | ò | latin small letter o with grave |
243 | oacute | ó | latin small letter o with acute |
244 | ocirc | ô | latin small letter o with circumflex |
245 | otilde | õ | latin small letter o with tilde |
246 | ouml | ö | latin small letter o with diaeresis |
247 | divide | ÷ | division sign |
248 | oslash | ø | latin small letter o with stroke, = latin small letter o slash |
249 | ugrave | ù | latin small letter u with grave |
250 | uacute | ú | latin small letter u with acute |
251 | ucirc | û | latin small letter u with circumflex |
252 | uuml | ü | latin small letter u with diaeresis |
253 | yacute | ý | latin small letter y with acute |
254 | thorn | þ | latin small letter thorn with |
255 | yuml | ÿ | latin small letter y with diaeresis |
338 | OElig | Œ | latin capital ligature OE |
339 | oelig | œ | latin small ligature oe ligature is a misnomer, this is a separate character in some languages |
352 | Scaron | Š | latin capital letter S with caron |
353 | scaron | š | latin small letter s with caron |
376 | Yuml | Ÿ | latin capital letter Y with diaeresis |
402 | fnof | ƒ | latin small f with hook = function = florin |
710 | circ | ˆ | modifier letter circumflex accent |
732 | tilde | ˜ | small tilde |
913 | Alpha | Α | greek capital letter alpha |
914 | Beta | Β | greek capital letter beta |
915 | Gamma | Γ | greek capital letter gamma |
916 | Delta | Δ | greek capital letter delta |
917 | Epsilon | Ε | greek capital letter epsilon |
918 | Zeta | Ζ | greek capital letter zeta |
919 | Eta | Η | greek capital letter eta |
920 | Theta | Θ | greek capital letter theta |
921 | Iota | Ι | greek capital letter iota |
922 | Kappa | Κ | greek capital letter kappa |
923 | Lambda | Λ | greek capital letter lambda |
924 | Mu | Μ | greek capital letter mu |
925 | Nu | Ν | greek capital letter nu |
926 | Xi | Ξ | greek capital letter xi |
927 | Omicron | Ο | greek capital letter omicron |
928 | Pi | Π | greek capital letter pi |
929 | Rho | Ρ | greek capital letter rho there is no Sigmaf, and no U+03A2 character either |
931 | Sigma | Σ | greek capital letter sigma |
932 | Tau | Τ | greek capital letter tau |
933 | Upsilon | Υ | greek capital letter upsilon |
934 | Phi | Φ | greek capital letter phi |
935 | Chi | Χ | greek capital letter chi |
936 | Psi | Ψ | greek capital letter psi |
937 | Omega | Ω | greek capital letter omega |
945 | alpha | α | greek small letter alpha |
946 | beta | β | greek small letter beta |
947 | gamma | γ | greek small letter gamma |
948 | delta | δ | greek small letter delta |
949 | epsilon | ε | greek small letter epsilon |
950 | zeta | ζ | greek small letter zeta |
951 | eta | η | greek small letter eta |
952 | theta | θ | greek small letter theta |
953 | iota | ι | greek small letter iota |
954 | kappa | κ | greek small letter kappa |
955 | lambda | λ | greek small letter lambda |
956 | mu | μ | greek small letter mu |
957 | nu | ν | greek small letter nu |
958 | xi | ξ | greek small letter xi |
959 | omicron | ο | greek small letter omicron |
960 | pi | π | greek small letter pi |
961 | rho | ρ | greek small letter rho |
962 | sigmaf | ς | greek small letter final sigma |
963 | sigma | σ | greek small letter sigma |
964 | tau | τ | greek small letter tau |
965 | upsilon | υ | greek small letter upsilon |
966 | phi | φ | greek small letter phi |
967 | chi | χ | greek small letter chi |
968 | psi | ψ | greek small letter psi |
969 | omega | ω | greek small letter omega |
977 | thetasym | ϑ | greek small letter theta symbol |
978 | upsih | ϒ | greek upsilon with hook symbol |
982 | piv | ϖ | greek pi symbol |
8194 | ensp | en space | |
8195 | emsp | em space | |
8201 | thinsp | thin space | |
8204 | zwnj | | zero width non-joiner |
8205 | zwj | | zero width joiner |
8206 | lrm | | left-to-right mark |
8207 | rlm | | right-to-left mark |
8211 | ndash | – | en dash |
8212 | mdash | — | em dash |
8216 | lsquo | ‘ | left single quotation mark |
8217 | rsquo | ’ | right single quotation mark |
8218 | sbquo | ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark |
8220 | ldquo | “ | left double quotation mark |
8221 | rdquo | ” | right double quotation mark |
8222 | bdquo | „ | double low-9 quotation mark |
8224 | dagger | † | dagger |
8225 | Dagger | ‡ | double dagger |
8226 | bull | • | bullet = black small circle bullet is NOT the same as bullet operator |
8230 | hellip | … | horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader |
8240 | permil | ‰ | per mille sign |
8242 | prime | ′ | prime = minutes = feet |
8243 | Prime | ″ | double prime = seconds = inches |
8249 | lsaquo | ‹ | single left-pointing angle quotation mark lsaquo is proposed but not yet ISO standardized |
8250 | rsaquo | › | single right-pointing angle quotation mark rsaquo is proposed but not yet ISO standardized |
8254 | oline | ‾ | overline = spacing overscore |
8260 | frasl | ⁄ | fraction slash |
8364 | euro | € | euro sign |
8465 | image | ℑ | blackletter capital I = imaginary part (doesn't display in IE7) |
8472 | weierp | ℘ | script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p (doesn't display in IE7) |
8476 | real | ℜ | blackletter capital R = real part symbol (doesn't display in IE7) |
8482 | trade | ™ | trade mark sign |
8501 | alefsym | ℵ | alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal (doesn't display in IE7) alef symbol is NOT the same as hebrew letter alef, U+05D0 although the same glyph could be used to depict both characters |
8592 | larr | ← | leftwards arrow |
8593 | uarr | ↑ | upwards arrow |
8594 | rarr | → | rightwards arrow |
8595 | darr | ↓ | downwards arrow |
8596 | harr | ↔ | left right arrow |
8629 | crarr | ↵ | downwards arrow with corner leftwardsc = carriage return (doesn't display in IE7) |
8656 | lArr | ⇐ | leftwards double arrow (doesn't display in IE7) Unicode does not say that lArr is the same as the 'is implied by' arrow but also does not have any other character for that function. So ? lArr can be used for 'is implied by' (doesn't display in IE7) |
8657 | uArr | ⇑ | upwards double arrow (doesn't display in IE7) |
8658 | rArr | ⇒ | rightwards double arrow (doesn't display in IE7) Unicode does not say this is the 'implies' character but does not have another character with this function so ? rArr can be used for 'implies' as ISOtech suggests (doesn't display in IE7) |
8659 | dArr | ⇓ | downwards double arrow (doesn't display in IE7) |
8660 | hArr | ⇔ | left right double arrow (doesn't display in IE7) |
8704 | forall | ∀ | for all (doesn't display in IE7) |
8706 | part | ∂ | partial differential |
8707 | exist | ∃ | there exists (doesn't display in IE7) |
8709 | empty | ∅ | empty set = null set = diameter (doesn't display in IE7) |
8711 | nabla | ∇ | nabla = backward difference (doesn't display in IE7) |
8712 | isin | ∈ | element of (doesn't display in IE7) |
8713 | notin | ∉ | not an element of (doesn't display in IE7) |
8715 | ni | ∋ | contains as member (doesn't display in IE7) |
8719 | prod | ∏ | n-ary product = product sign prod is NOT the same character as U+03A0 'greek capital letter pi' though the same glyph might be used for both |
8721 | sum | ∑ | n-ary sumation sum is NOT the same character as U+03A3 'greek capital letter sigma' though the same glyph might be used for both |
8722 | minus | − | minus sign |
8727 | lowast | ∗ | asterisk operator (doesn't display in IE7) |
8730 | radic | √ | square root = radical sign |
8733 | prop | ∝ | proportional to |
8734 | infin | ∞ | infinity |
8736 | ang | ∠ | angle (doesn't display in IE7) |
8743 | and | ∧ | logical and = wedge (doesn't display in IE7) |
8744 | or | ∨ | logical or = vee (doesn't display in IE7) |
8745 | cap | ∩ | intersection = cap |
8746 | cup | ∪ | union = cup (doesn't display in IE7) |
8747 | int | ∫ | integral |
8756 | there4 | ∴ | therefore (doesn't display in IE7) |
8764 | sim | ∼ | tilde operator = varies with = similar to (doesn't display in IE7) tilde operator is NOT the same character as the tilde, U+007E, although the same glyph might be used to represent both |
8773 | cong | ≅ | approximately equal to |
8776 | asymp | ≈ | almost equal to = asymptotic to |
8800 | ne | ≠ | not equal to |
8801 | equiv | ≡ | identical to |
8804 | le | ≤ | less-than or equal to |
8805 | ge | ≥ | greater-than or equal to |
8834 | sub | ⊂ | subset of |
8835 | sup | ⊃ | superset of note that nsup, 'not a superset of, U+2283' is not covered by the Symbol font encoding and is not included. Should it be, for symmetry? It is in ISOamsn |
8836 | nsub | ⊄ | not a subset of |
8838 | sube | ⊆ | subset of or equal to (doesn't display in IE7) |
8839 | supe | ⊇ | superset of or equal to (doesn't display in IE7) |
8853 | oplus | ⊕ | circled plus = direct sum (doesn't display in IE7) |
8855 | otimes | ⊗ | circled times = vector product (doesn't display in IE7) |
8869 | perp | ⊥ | up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular (doesn't display in IE7) |
8901 | sdot | ⋅ | dot operator (doesn't display in IE7) dot operator is NOT the same character as U+00B7 middle dot |
8968 | lceil | ⌈ | left ceiling = apl upstile |
8969 | rceil | ⌉ | right ceiling |
8970 | lfloor | ⌊ | left floor = apl downstile |
8971 | rfloor | ⌋ | right floor |
9001 | lang | 〈 | left-pointing angle bracket = bra (doesn't display in IE7) lang is NOT the same character as U+003C 'less than' or U+2039 'single left-pointing angle quotation mark' |
9002 | rang | 〉 | right-pointing angle bracket = ket (doesn't display in IE7) rang is NOT the same character as U+003E 'greater than' or U+203A 'single right-pointing angle quotation mark' |
9632 | ■ | black filled square | |
9633 | □ | empty square | |
9634 | ▢ | large empty square (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9635 | ▣ | square with smaller black square in it (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9636 | ▤ | bared square (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9636 | ▤ | bared square (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9642 | ▪ | tiny black square square | |
9643 | ▫ | tiny black square square | |
9723 | ◻ | small white square (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9724 | ◼ | small black square (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9675 | loz | ○ | lozenge |
9674 | ◊ | small lozenge | |
9678 | ◎ | double open circle (doesn't display in IE7) | |
9702 | ◦ | open bullet | |
The following symbols are not supported by all browsers | |||
9824 | spades | ♠ | black (solid) spade suit |
9827 | clubs | ♣ | black (solid) club suit = shamrock |
9829 | hearts | ♥ | black (solid) heart suit = valentine. |
9830 | diams | ♦ | black (solid) diamond suit |
See also:
See the General Punctuation Entities, math symbols, miscellaneous technical, and more along with which browsers support them.
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