′ | acute accent (not accent
acute) |
& | ampersand |
< > | angle brackets |
’ | apostrophe (publishing character) |
' | apostrophe (user-typed text) |
* | asterisk (not
star) |
@ | at sign |
| backslash |
{ } | braces (not curly
brackets) |
[ ] | brackets |
^ | caret, circumflex (not accent
circumflex) |
¢ | cent sign |
« » | chevrons, opening and closing. Microsoft term,
seldom used, especially in documentation. Also referred to as
merge field characters in
Word. |
© | copyright symbol |
† | dagger |
° | degree symbol |
÷ | division sign |
$ | dollar sign |
[[ ]] | double brackets |
… | ellipsis (s), ellipses (pl). Do not add space
between ellipsis points. |
— | em dash |
– | en dash |
= | equal sign (not equals
sign) |
€ | euro symbol |
! | exclamation point (not exclamation
mark or bang) |
` | grave accent (not accent
grave) |
> | greater than sign. If used in conjunction with
the less than sign to enclose a character string such as an
HTML or XML tag, right angle bracket is
all right. |
≥ | greater than or equal to sign |
- | hyphen |
" | inch mark |
< | less than sign. If used in conjunction with the
greater than sign to enclose a character string such as an
HTML or XML tag, left angle bracket is
all right. |
≤ | less than or equal to sign |
– | minus sign (use en dash) |
x | multiplication sign (use * if necessary to match
software) |
≠ | not equal to |
# | number sign in most cases, but pound
key when referring to the telephone |
¶ | paragraph mark |
( ) | parentheses (pl), opening or closing parenthesis
(s) |
% | percent |
π | pi |
| | pipe, vertical bar, or OR logical operator |
+ | plus sign |
± | plus or minus sign |
? | question mark |
“ ” | quotation marks (not quotes
or quote marks). Curly
quotation marks is all right if necessary to
distinguish from straight quotation marks. |
" " | straight quotation marks (not
quotes or quote
marks) |
‘ ’ | single curly quotation marks (not
quotes or quote
marks) |
’ ' | single straight quotation marks (not
quotes or quote
marks) |
® | registered trademark symbol |
§ | section |
/ | slash mark (not
virgule) |
~ | tilde |
™ | trademark symbol |
_ | underscore |