How to type Ballot Box with Check
To type Ballot Box with Check (☑), press Alt + 9745 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ☑ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2611 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2611 on Linux, or 2611 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Ballot Box With Check
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- Unicode
- U+2611
- Windows
- Alt + 9745 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9745 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ☑ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2611 | BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK |
Symbols related to Ballot Box with Check
These are filed under check and done in CLDR, the keyword list Unicode publishes alongside the names.
Other symbols
Ballot Box with Check is not the only name it goes by: people look for ☑ as tick too, and the search box on this site matches that as readily as the Unicode name.
☑ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ☑ in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, type 2611 and press Alt + X. Word reads the four characters before the cursor as a hex codepoint and replaces them, and pressing Alt + X again turns ☑ back into 2611, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
What Ballot Box with Check is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ☑ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are checked, done, off and tick. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Ballot Box with Check is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Ballot Box with Check
The code chart points from ☑ to ballot box with bold check (U+1F5F9). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Ballot Box with Check looks nearly right but not quite.
How Ballot Box with Check behaves in software
☑ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Ballot Box with Check
What does the tick symbol mean in maths?
☑ is BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK, encoded at U+2611. It is distinct from ballot box with bold check (U+1F5F9), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
How to type tick symbol in keyboard?
You can press Alt + 9745 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ☑.
How to type check symbol in word?
In Word, type 2611 and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ☑. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 9745 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
Every way to write Ballot Box with Check
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2611 |
| Decimal | 9745 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 91 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 11 |
| HTML entity | ☑ |
| HTML numeric | ☑ or ☑ |
| CSS | \2611 |
| JavaScript | \u2611 |
| Python | \u2611 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%98%91 |
| SVG | 2611.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ☑ arrives as ☑
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 98 91 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.