Flashcards: Typographical symbols

The slash is an oblique slanting line.

The caret /ˈkærᵻt/ is an inverted V-shaped grapheme.

The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes.

An obelus (symbol: ÷, plural: obeluses or obeli) is a symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and below.

The colon( : ) is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

A dagger, or obelisk, U+2020 † DAGGER (HTML †⧼dot-separator⧽ †), is a typographical symbol or glyph.

Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission" or "falling short") is a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.

The symbol # is most commonly known as a number sign, hash, or pound sign.

The question mark [ ? ] (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

The dollar sign ($ or ) is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various dollar units of currency around the world.

In typography, a bullet ( • ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol).

The prime symbol ( ′ ), double prime symbol ( ″ ), triple prime symbol ( ‴ ), quadruple prime symbol ( ⁗ ) etc.

The registered trademark symbol (®) is a symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office.

Enclosed A or circled Latin A (Ⓐ, ⓐ) is a typographical symbol.

The sound recording copyright symbol, represented by the graphic symbol ℗ (a circled capital letter P), is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord (LPs, audiotapes, cassettes, compact discs, etc.).

Enclosed C or circled Latin C (Ⓒ or ⓒ) is a typographical symbol.

Guillemets (/ˈɡɪləmɛt/, or /ɡiːəˈmeɪ/; French: [ɡijmɛ]), also called angle quotes, Latin quotation marks, or French quotation marks, are polylines pointed like arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.

An x mark (also known as a cross, x, ex, exmark or into mark) is a mark (x, ×, X, ✕, ☓, ✖, ✗, ✘, etc.) used to indicate the concept of negation (for example "no, this has not been verified" or "no, I don't agree") as well as an indicator (for example in election ballot papers or in x marks the spot).

In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.