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Symbols used in software interfaces and iconography.
All 263symbols recorded in this context, A–Z.
A small aeroplane silhouette, marking the setting that disables a device's radios.
An upward triangle crossed by a horizontal bar.
A circle with a cross above it, the inversion of the sign for Venus.
A sign for nitric acid.
A sign for the acid mixture that dissolves gold.
A pair of overlapping triangles, or a stylised S-and-Z form depending on the source.
A sign for bismuth, one of the later metals to be distinguished.
A sign for mercury sulphide, the chief ore of mercury.
A downward triangle crossed by a horizontal bar.
An upward-pointing triangle, the alchemical sign for fire.
A sign for saltpetre, potassium nitrate.
A sign for phosphorus, isolated from urine in 1669.
A form resembling a crossed or looped stroke, denoting ammonium chloride.
A circle divided by a horizontal line through its middle.
A triangle above a cross, the sign for sulphur and for the principle of combustibility.
A looped form resembling a script V or a hooked stroke, denoting sulphate salts.
A downward-pointing triangle, the alchemical sign for water.
A looping mark meaning 'and', developed from a ligature of the Latin 'et'.
A capital A with a small ring above it, marking a length of 10⁻¹⁰ metres.
A dot above a letter, marking a nasal.
A doubled rightward bracket adding output to the end of a file.
Two identical wavy lines set one above the other, each rising and falling twice, the zodiac sign for births between 20 January to 18 February.
A comma turned the other way.
A comma-like mark splitting a number.
A question mark facing left.
The digits used in Arabic script.
Two curves rising from a single vertical stem and turning outward at the top, like a pair of horns, the zodiac sign for births between 21 March to 19 April.
An equals sign and angle bracket introducing a compact function.
A small radiating star used to flag a footnote or an omission.
A lower-case a enclosed by a curling stroke, used in email addresses and handles.
A speaker or head with sound radiating from it, marking described content.
Numbered points from 1 to 24, counted in opposite directions for each player.
A left-pointing arrow marking the key that deletes backwards.
A capital letter B with a single vertical stroke rising above and below it, the sign for the Thai baht.
A rectangle with a small nub at one end, filled in proportion to the charge remaining.
A capital O with a bracketed expression, bounding a growth rate from above.
A capital B with two vertical strokes, used for bitcoin.
An angular rune-like glyph marking a Bluetooth wireless connection.
A name, a definition sign and alternatives.
A ribbon with a notched foot, saving a page for later.
A filled dot marking an item in a list.
An invisible character at the head of a file, declaring encoding.
Two spirals set side by side and turned through half a circle from one another, each curling inward, the zodiac sign for births between 21 June to 22 July.
A sharp angular stroke rising to a point and falling again, ending in a small closed loop curling below, the zodiac sign for births between 22 December to 19 January.
An upward arrow above a horizontal bar, marking a latching shift.
An upward wedge in the text showing where something is to be inserted.
A lower-case c crossed by a vertical stroke, marking a hundredth of a currency unit.
A short stroke rising into a long one, marking correctness or completion.
A mitre with a diagonal slit, standing for the bishop.
A crowned figure topped with a cross, standing for the king.
A horse's head, standing for the knight.
A small ball on a collar, standing for the pawn.
A coronet of points, standing for the queen.
A castellated tower, standing for the rook.
Right-angle brackets used as quotation marks in East Asia.
The letters CC on a rounded card, marking captioned content.
A shut padlock indicating an encrypted or protected connection.
A rounded cloud outline, standing for a remote service or remote storage.
A letter written beneath a letter.
A looped square with four outward corners, marking the Mac command key.
Four arcs of increasing size, marking a card or terminal that supports contactless payment.
An upward chevron marking the control modifier on a keyboard.
A reversed C in a circle, standing for permissions passed on.
A capital C inside a circle (©), used to indicate a claim of copyright in a work.
Two diagonal strokes crossing, marking error, dismissal or closure.
Bracketed numbers after a clue, giving the answer's letter count and word breaks.
A splayed end meaning many.
A barred D for a different sound.
A dot inside a Hebrew letter.
A cross-shaped mark with a long lower arm, used as a second footnote mark.
Two short strokes at a kana's upper right.
A single vertical stroke ending a sentence.
A crescent moon toggling a light-on-dark colour scheme.
Letter-and-number shorthand for a dartboard segment, such as T20 or D16.
Two minus signs lowering a value by one.
A degree sign followed by a capital C, marking a temperature in Celsius.
A circle with a diagonal stroke, marking a dimension as a diameter.
The dot patterns on a die, and the rule that opposite faces total seven.
A circle crossed by a horizontal bar, silencing interruptions.
An S crossed by one or two vertical strokes, used for dollar and peso currencies.
A lower-case letter d crossed by a short horizontal stroke through its ascender, with a line beneath, the sign for the Vietnamese đồng.
Two forward slashes making the rest of a line a comment.
A cube marked 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64, used to raise the stake in backgammon.
A downward arrow, usually above a horizontal bar or an open tray.
Square brackets marking an optional part.
Braces marking a repeatable part.
A flat line broken by a sharp spike, standing for a heartbeat.
A pencil at an angle, opening something for editing.
An upward triangle above a horizontal bar.
Three dots marking an omission or a trailing-off in speech.
A rightward arrow meeting an upright bar, marking a jump to the end.
An ornate circular mark containing a verse number.
An arrow turning down then left, marking the enter or return key.
A short teardrop stroke used only between list items.
A semicolon that asks.
An arrow leaving a circle, marking the escape key.
A rounded E crossed by two horizontal strokes, marking the euro.
A vertical stroke above a dot, marking emphasis.
A five-pointed star marking something as favoured or rated.
A funnel narrowing downward, restricting a list to matching items.
A stem with a rounded lobe at its foot, lowering a note by a semitone.
Square brackets with the top or bottom serifs removed, marking rounding direction.
A small lettered circle joining flows.
A diamond with labelled exits.
An arrow joining one step to the next.
A slanted parallelogram.
A rectangle with doubled side bars.
A plain rectangle for an operation.
Shapes standing for kinds of step.
A rounded shape starting or ending a flow.
A tabbed folder standing for a container of files.
A right-pointing arrow marking the key that deletes ahead of the cursor.
The letter F with a numeral, marking a programmable key.
Two vertical strokes joined by a horizontal bar at the top and another at the foot, the shape of the Roman numeral two, the zodiac sign for births between 21 May to 20 June.
Italics for the gene, upright for the protein.
A code that shares a prefix with its neighbours.
An asterisk standing for any run of characters in a filename pattern.
Letters and numbers naming points on a Go board, in three competing conventions.
Numbers, triangles, squares and circles printed on stones in a Go diagram.
An angle bracket opening to the left, stating that the left value is larger.
Three stacked horizontal lines that open a navigation menu.
A hash making the rest of a line invisible to the interpreter.
Small marks above and below the text, giving melody and syntax.
Six hexadecimal digits giving red, green and blue values.
A leftward arrow meeting an upright bar, marking a jump to the start.
An hourglass carved on a monument, marking time running out.
A rounded letter S laid on its side with an open curve, crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Ukrainian hryvnia.
Two plus signs raising a value by one.
A Devanagari 'ra' with a doubled horizontal bar, marking the Indian rupee.
Two letters fused into one.
A lower-case letter i, marking an information point.
A leftward angle bracket feeding a file into a command.
A small iota written beneath a vowel.
A grid ordered so neighbours differ by one.
Three dots stacked vertically, opening a menu of further actions.
Glyphs for keys with no letters.
A lower-case k, the SI prefix for a factor of one thousand.
An asterisk repeating the preceding element any number of times.
A small closed loop at the foot from which a long curve sweeps up and over to the right, ending in a hook, the zodiac sign for births between 23 July to 22 August.
An angle bracket opening to the right, stating that the left value is smaller.
A horizontal line with a second, shorter line above it raised in the middle by a low arc, the zodiac sign for births between 23 September to 22 October.
A heart outline expressing approval or affection for an item.
A rotating arc or ring of segments indicating work in progress.
Shapes standing for boolean functions.
The digit that catches a slip.
A small vertical stroke above a Thai consonant.
A teardrop shape with a circular hole, marking a location on a digital map.
A circle with an arrow pointing up and right — Mars, the male sign, and iron.
Vowels that hang off consonants.
Three dots in a row, opening a menu of further actions.
A small pointer beside a lined panel, opening a context menu.
A lower-case Greek mu with a straight descender, used as the SI prefix for one millionth.
A gap that is a character.
A speaker with a cross or slash, silencing audio output.
A capital letter N crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Nigerian naira.
Two angular forms side by side, each an upright with a horizontal arm, joined at the top by a continuous line, the sign for the Israeli new shekel.
A wave-like mark of curved strokes, indicating a near-field communication point.
A small filled circle on the corner of an icon, marking something unseen.
A bell outline standing for alerts and their settings.
Two question marks supplying a fallback for an absent value.
A padlock enclosing a numeral, marking the numeric keypad latch.
Two pairs of crossing strokes, used as a number mark, a hash and a musical sharp.
A mark repeating the preceding character.
An unshackled padlock indicating an unprotected state.
A keyhole mark identifying the body that certifies open-source licences.
A horizontal bar over two angled tails, marking the option modifier.
A question mark and dot stopping a lookup on an absent value.
A rightward angle bracket sending a command's output into a file.
A downward arrow with a bar below it, marking movement by a whole screen.
An upward arrow with a bar above it, marking movement by a whole screen.
A paperclip standing for a file carried alongside a message.
Two upright bars that suspend playback.
Tokens moving between places.
A capital letter P crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Philippine peso.
A reversed P with a doubled stem, marking the start of a paragraph.
Two arcs facing away from each other, joined across the middle by a single horizontal line, the zodiac sign for births between 19 February to 20 March.
A right-pointing triangle that starts playback.
Two-character card codes and the s or o that marks a starting hand suited or not.
A crossed, looping L, marking pound sterling and other pound currencies.
A capital letter R with a stroke across its leg, heading a prescription.
A rectangle with corner marks, standing for capturing the display.
A bar filling from one end to show how much of a task remains.
An underline beneath a personal or place name.
A square block of black and white cells with three large squares at its corners.
A hooked stroke above a dot, marking a question.
Paired marks enclosing reported speech.
An r tucked beneath its consonant.
One or two ticks beside a message, reporting how far it has got.
An arrow curving forward to the right, reinstating a reversed action.
One or two arrows curving into a near-closed circle, indicating reload or synchronisation.
A superscript capital R inside a circle (®), used only for marks formally registered with a national trademark office.
A caret binding a pattern to the start of a line.
A dollar sign binding a pattern to the end of a line.
An r that climbs onto the next letter.
A black diamond containing a white question mark.
A capital letter P with a closed bowl, crossed by a single short horizontal stroke at the foot of its stem, the sign for the Russian ruble.
An arrow pointing up and to the right, crossed near its foot by a short diagonal bar, the zodiac sign for births between 22 November to 21 December.
Two stacked colons reaching inside a namespace or class.
A letter M whose final stroke continues upward and to the right as a straight arrow, the zodiac sign for births between 23 October to 21 November.
A padlock beside a scrolling arrow, marking a rarely used latch.
A magnifying glass: a circle with a short diagonal handle.
Two interlocking S shapes, used to cite a numbered section of a text.
A dot above a comma, joining related clauses.
A toothed wheel, marking a control that opens settings or preferences.
A small w-shaped mark above a letter, doubling it.
Three dots joined by two lines, or a box with an arrow leaving it, marking a share action.
Two slanted horizontal bars crossed by two vertical strokes, raising a note by a semitone.
A hash and exclamation mark naming the interpreter for a script.
A vertical bar joining one command's output to the next command's input.
A hollow upward arrow, marking the shift key.
A row of bars of increasing height, showing received signal strength.
A fixed value for each coloured ball, from one for red to seven for black.
A shallow open-topped bracket standing for the space character.
Three dots unpacking a collection into its elements.
A vertical line entering the top of a broken circle — IEC 60417-5009, marking a control that puts equipment into a low-power state rather than fully disconnecting it.
A group of keys pressed together on a stenotype machine to write one syllable.
Three horizontal strokes comparing value and type together.
Small candidate numbers written in a cell's corners or centre.
A small circle above a letter, marking no vowel.
A right-pointing arrow meeting a vertical bar, marking the tab key.
A horizontal stroke stretching a joined letter.
A circle with a wide upturned arc resting on top of it, like a head carrying a pair of horns, the zodiac sign for births between 20 April to 20 May.
A capital letter T with a second horizontal bar below its crossbar, the sign for the Kazakhstani tenge.
A question mark and colon choosing between two values.
A small mark above a letter, silencing it.
A wavy horizontal stroke with several unrelated uses.
Pitch written as digits.
A superscript 'TM' (™), used to indicate a claimed but not necessarily registered trademark.
A waste bin standing for deletion, usually recoverable.
Every case, written out.
A small raised dot separating syllables.
A letter L leaning to the right with an upward hook at the foot, crossed by two short strokes rising to the right, the sign for the Turkish lira.
A narrow rectangle on a lifeline.
A stick figure standing for a role.
A line ending in a hollow diamond.
A plain line joining two classes.
A rectangle divided into three bands.
A line ending in a filled diamond.
A dashed line with an open arrowhead.
A line ending in a hollow triangle.
A dashed vertical line below a participant.
Figures at the end of an association line.
An oval containing a goal.
A sign prefixing a member name.
An arrow curving back to the left, reversing the last action.
An upward arrow, usually above a horizontal bar or an open tray.
A circle with a vertical stroke rising to a cross — Uranus.
A trident of three branches ending in a circle, a triangle and a square, marking a USB port.
A flattened oval outline, marking a USB Type-C port.
An invisible character choosing between glyph forms.
A tick inside a coloured disc, marking an account as checked.
A single upright stroke, used as a separator and an operator.
Five marks over a Latin alphabet.
A short slanting stroke beneath a consonant.
A letter M whose final stroke curves back on itself into a closed loop crossing the third leg, the zodiac sign for births between 23 August to 22 September.
A wavy line joining a range.
Nested arcs radiating from a dot, indicating a wireless network signal.
The Wi-Fi arcs on a sign, marking an area with wireless internet.
A four-pane window mark identifying the Windows modifier key.
A capital letter W crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the South Korean won.
A capital Y crossed by one or two horizontal strokes.
An ornate head mark opening a Tibetan text.
An invisible character forcing two characters to join.