Symbols Alt Codes

General symbols with Alt codes: legal marks, reference marks, technical signs and typographic characters.

This group holds 92 characters. They are scattered from U+0023 to U+2718, 9,974 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Miscellaneous Symbols (53), Number Forms (12), Geometric Shapes (11), Dingbats (7) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for ♥, ★ and ♪. The phrase people type for the first of those is heart copy and paste, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 53 of the 92, come from Miscellaneous Symbols: weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 8 of them. The rest come from Basic Latin, Dingbats and Geometric Shapes among others.

17 of the 92 have a Windows Alt code that works as printed. The rest are copy and paste, which works the same everywhere.

12 carry a numeric value, so software that asks what number a character is gets an answer rather than an error. 15 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. Each one also has a guide page with its Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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