Useful Unicode characters

Introduction

Unicode characters to copy & paste. I looked up the named HTML character references on the WHATWG chart.

Latin letters

These are the non-ASCII letters needed to write Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German. Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+00C4ÄÄlatin capital letter a with diaeresis
U+00E4äälatin small letter a with diaeresis
U+00C5ÅÅlatin capital letter a with ring above
U+00E5åålatin small letter a with ring above
U+00C6ÆÆlatin capital letter ae
U+00E6æælatin small letter ae
U+00C9ÉÉlatin capital letter e with acute
U+00E9éélatin small letter e with acute
U+00D6ÖÖlatin capital letter o with diaeresis
U+00F6öölatin small letter o with diaeresis
U+00D8ØØlatin capital letter o with stroke
U+00F8øølatin small letter o with stroke
U+00D5ÕÕlatin capital letter o with tilde
U+00F5õõlatin small letter o with tilde
U+0160ŠŠlatin capital letter s with caron
U+0161ššlatin small letter s with caron
U+00DFßßlatin small letter sharp s
U+00DCÜÜlatin capital letter u with diaeresis
U+00FCüülatin small letter u with diaeresis
U+017DŽŽlatin capital letter z with caron
U+017Ežžlatin small letter z with caron

Punctuation

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+0026&&ampersand
U+00B7··middle dot
U+2022••bullet
U+2013––en dash
U+2014——em dash
U+2026……horizontal ellipsis
U+0027''apostrophe
U+2018‘‘left single quotation mark
U+2019’’right single quotation mark
U+0022""quotation mark
U+201C““left double quotation mark
U+201D””right double quotation mark
U+00A0  no-break space
U+00AD­­soft hyphen

Numbers

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+2070⁰⁰superscript zero
U+00B9¹¹superscript one
U+00B2²²superscript two
U+00B3³³superscript three
U+2074⁴⁴superscript four
U+2075⁵⁵superscript five
U+2076⁶⁶superscript six
U+2077⁷⁷superscript seven
U+2078⁸⁸superscript eight
U+2079⁹⁹superscript nine
U+207A⁺⁺superscript plus sign
U+207B⁻⁻superscript minus
U+207Fⁿⁿsuperscript latin small letter n
U+2080₀₀subscript zero
U+2081₁₁subscript one
U+2082₂₂subscript two
U+2083₃₃subscript three
U+2084₄₄subscript four
U+2085₅₅subscript five
U+2086₆₆subscript six
U+2087₇₇subscript seven
U+2088₈₈subscript eight
U+2089₉₉subscript nine
U+208A₊₊subscript plus sign
U+208B₋₋subscript minus
U+2099ₙₙlatin subscript small letter n
U+215B⅛⅛vulgar fraction one eighth
U+00BC¼¼vulgar fraction one quarter
U+215C⅜⅜vulgar fraction three eighths
U+00BD½½vulgar fraction one half
U+215D⅝⅝vulgar fraction five eighths
U+00BE¾¾vulgar fraction three quarters
U+215E⅞⅞vulgar fraction seven eighths

Math

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+2212−−minus sign
U+00D7××multiplication sign
U+00F7÷÷division sign
U+00B0°°degree sign
U+2032′′prime
U+2033″″double prime
U+00B1±±plus-minus sign
U+2213∓∓minus-or-plus sign
U+221A√√square root
U+221B∛∛cube root
U+2248≈≈almost equal to
U+2260≠≠not equal to
U+003C<&lt;less-than sign
U+2264≤&le;less-than or equal to
U+003E>&gt;greater-than sign
U+2265≥&ge;greater-than or equal to
U+221E∞&infin;infinity

Here are some of the characters above encoded as named character references instead (not supported by Lynx as of June 2025): ÷ ± ∓ √

Science

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+03B1α&alpha;greek small letter alpha
U+03B2β&beta;greek small letter beta
U+03B3γ&gamma;greek small letter gamma
U+0394Δ&Delta;greek capital letter delta
U+03B8θ&theta;greek small letter theta
U+03BBλ&lambda;greek small letter lamda
U+00B5µ&micro;micro sign
U+03C0π&pi;greek small letter pi
U+03C1ρ&rho;greek small letter rho
U+03C4τ&tau;greek small letter tau
U+03C6φ&phi;greek small letter phi
U+03D5ϕ&phiv;greek phi symbol
U+03A9Ω&Omega;greek capital letter omega
U+03C9ω&omega;greek small letter omega

Arrows

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+2190←&larr;leftwards arrow
U+21E4⇤&#8676;leftwards arrow to bar
U+2192→&rarr;rightwards arrow
U+21E5⇥&#8677;rightwards arrow to bar
U+2194↔&harr;left right arrow
U+2191↑&uarr;upwards arrow
U+2912⤒&#10514;upwards arrow to bar
U+2193↓&darr;downwards arrow
U+2913⤓&#10515;downwards arrow to bar
U+2195↕&harr;up down arrow

Here are some of the characters above encoded as named character references instead (not supported by Lynx as of June 2025): ⇤ ⇥ ⤒ ⤓

Shapes

Unicode blocks:

CodepointCharacterHTMLName
U+25B2▲&#9650;black up-pointing triangle
U+25B3△&xutri;white up-pointing triangle
U+25BC▼&#9660;black down-pointing triangle
U+25BD▽&xdtri;white down-pointing triangle
U+25C0◀&#9664;black left-pointing triangle
U+25C1◁&#9665;white left-pointing triangle
U+25B6▶&#9654;black right-pointing triangle
U+25B7▷&#9655;white right-pointing triangle
U+25A0■&#9632;black square
U+25A1□&squ;white square
U+25C6◆&#9670;black diamond
U+25C7◇&#9671;white diamond
U+2B1F⬟&#11039;black pentagon
U+2B20⬠&#11040;white pentagon
U+2B22⬢&#11042;black hexagon
U+2B21⬡&#11041;white hexagon
U+25CF●&#9679;black circle
U+25CB○&cir;white circle
U+2605★&starf;black star
U+2606☆&star;white star