Special Characters

Click any character to copy it. Click its &entity; chip to copy the HTML entity instead.

194 of 194 characters

Punctuation & typography

Dashes, quotes, and marks that most keyboards can't type.

Legal & editorial

Currency

Currency symbols beyond the dollar sign.

Maths & logic

Operators, comparisons, and set notation.

Fractions & superscripts

Precomposed fractions and raised/lowered digits.

Arrows

Directional marks for docs and diagrams.

Shapes, bullets & ticks

Status marks and list glyphs.

Greek letters

Common in maths, physics, and variable naming.

Box drawing

For ASCII diagrams and terminal output.

Invisible & spacing

Characters that render as nothing or as blank space — the ones that break string comparisons and sneak into pasted text.

Reference

The “Invisible & spacing” group holds real characters that render as nothing or as blank space. They copy fine — they just look empty when pasted, which is exactly why they break string comparisons.

HTML entities are only needed in HTML. In JSON, source code, or plain text, paste the character itself.

Instructions

A picker for the characters that are awkward to type — dashes, quotes, arrows, currency, maths and Greek.

Search by name (arrow, euro), by the character itself, or by code point (U+2014).
Click a character to copy it.
Click its &entity; chip instead to copy the HTML entity.

Tips

The three dashes are different: hyphen - joins words, en dash – spans ranges, em dash — breaks a sentence.
HTML entities are only needed in HTML. In JSON, source code or plain text, paste the character itself.
For codes below 128, the ASCII Table is the better reference.
Hit Example and click the search box to run a sample lookup.