How to type Heavy Check Mark
To type Heavy Check Mark (✔), press Alt + 10004 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+2714 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2714 on Linux, or 2714 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Heavy Check Mark
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2714
- Windows
- Alt + 10004 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 10004 | 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+2714 | HEAVY CHECK MARK |
Symbols related to Heavy Check Mark
These are filed under check and done in CLDR, the keyword list Unicode publishes alongside the names.
Other symbols
Heavy Check Mark 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 Dingbats block (U+2700-U+27BF), the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ✔ in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, type 2714 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 2714, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
What Heavy Check Mark 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, checkmark, done and tick. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Heavy Check Mark is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
How Heavy Check Mark 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 Heavy Check Mark
What is the check mark symbol in math?
✔ is HEAVY CHECK MARK, encoded at U+2714.
How to type tick symbol in keyboard?
You can press Alt + 10004 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 2714 and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ✔. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, HEAVY CHECK MARK. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 10004 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
Every way to write Heavy Check Mark
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2714 |
| Decimal | 10004 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 94 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27 14 |
| HTML entity | ✔ |
| HTML numeric | ✔ or ✔ |
| CSS | \2714 |
| JavaScript | \u2714 |
| Python | \u2714 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%94 |
| SVG | 2714.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ✔ arrives as ✔
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 9C 94 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.