Have you ever stopped to think about the names of the symbols we use every day in English? The ampersand, the at symbol, the dollar sign etc. Here is a full list of symbol names in English:
- Ampersand: &
- At symbol: @
- Dollar sign: $
- Percent sign: %
- Plus sign: +
- Minus sign: –
- Asterisk: *
- Forward slash: /
- Backward slash: \
- Caret: ^
- Tilde: ~
- Pipe: |
- Exclamation mark: !
- Question mark: ?
- Period: .
- Comma: ,
- Colon: :
- Semicolon: ;
- Quotation marks: ” “
- Parentheses: ( )
- Brackets: [ ]
- Braces: { }
- Greater than sign: >
- Less than sign: <
- Equal sign: =
- Hyphen: –
- Underscore: _
- Dagger: †
- Double dagger: ‡
- Section sign: §
- Paragraph sign: ¶
- Pilcrow sign: ¶
- Copyright symbol: ©
- Registered trademark symbol: ®
- Trademark symbol: ™
- Ellipsis: …
- Em dash: —
- En dash: –
- Prime: ′
- Double prime: ″
- Single quote: ‘
- Double quote: “
- Degree symbol: °
- Plus-minus sign: ±
- Inverted exclamation mark: ¡
- Inverted question mark: ¿
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