General Punctuation

For additional general punctuation characters see also Basic Latin, Latin-1, Supplemental Punctuation and CJK Symbols and Punctuation.

Spaces

2000  En Quad
  2002  en space
  0020  space
2001  Em Quad
  =mutton quad
  2003  em space
  0020  space
2002  En Space
  =nut
  half an em
  0020  space
2003  Em Space
  =mutton
  nominally, a space equal to the type size in points
  may scale by the condensation factor of a font
  0020  space
2004  Three-Per-Em Space
  =thick space
  0020  space
2005  Four-Per-Em Space
  =mid space
  0020  space
2006  Six-Per-Em Space
  in computer typography sometimes equated to thin space
  0020  space
2007  Figure Space
  space equal to tabular width of a font
  this is equivalent to the digit width of fonts with fixed-width digits
  <noBreak> 0020 
2008  Punctuation Space
  space equal to narrow punctuation of a font
  0020  space
2009  Thin Space
  a fifth of an em (or sometimes a sixth)
  202F  narrow no-break space
  0020  space
200A  Hair Space
  thinner than a thin space
  in traditional typography, the thinnest space available
  0020  space

Format characters

200B  Zero Width Space
  commonly abbreviated ZWSP
  this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification
200C  Zero Width Non-Joiner
  commonly abbreviated ZWNJ
200D  Zero Width Joiner
  commonly abbreviated ZWJ
200E  Left-To-Right Mark
  commonly abbreviated LRM
200F  Right-To-Left Mark
  commonly abbreviated RLM
  061C  arabic letter mark

Dashes

2010 ‐ Hyphen
  002D - hyphen-minus
  00AD  soft hyphen
2011 ‑ Non-Breaking Hyphen
  <noBreak> 2010 ‐
2012 ‒ Figure Dash
2013 – En Dash
2014 — Em Dash
  may be used in pairs to offset parenthetical text
  2E3A ⸺ two-em dash
  30FC ー katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
2015 ― Horizontal Bar
  =quotation dash
  long dash introducing quoted text

General punctuation

2016 ‖ Double Vertical Line
  used in pairs to indicate norm of a matrix
  20E6 ◌⃦ combining double vertical stroke overlay
  2225 ∥ parallel to
  23F8 ⏸ double vertical bar
2017 ‗ Double Low Line
  this is a spacing character
  005F _ low line
  0333 ◌̳ combining double low line
  0020  0333 ◌̳

Quotation marks and apostrophe

Use of quotation marks differs by language. The character names cannot reflect actual usage for all languages.
2018 ‘ Left Single Quotation Mark
  =single turned comma quotation mark
  this is the preferred character (as opposed to 201B ‛)
  0027 ' apostrophe
  02BB ʻ modifier letter turned comma
  275B ❛ heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament
2019 ’ Right Single Quotation Mark
  =single comma quotation mark
  this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
  0027 ' apostrophe
  02BC ʼ modifier letter apostrophe
  275C ❜ heavy single comma quotation mark ornament
201A ‚ Single Low-9 Quotation Mark
  =low single comma quotation mark
  used as opening single quotation mark in some languages
201B ‛ Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
  =single reversed comma quotation mark
  has same semantic as 2018 ‘, but differs in appearance
  02BD ʽ modifier letter reversed comma
201C “ Left Double Quotation Mark
  =double turned comma quotation mark
  this is the preferred character (as opposed to 201F ‟)
  0022 " quotation mark
  275D ❝ heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament
  301D 〝 reversed double prime quotation mark
201D ” Right Double Quotation Mark
  =double comma quotation mark
  0022 " quotation mark
  2033 ″ double prime
  275E ❞ heavy double comma quotation mark ornament
  301E 〞 double prime quotation mark
201E „ Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
  =low double comma quotation mark
  used as opening double quotation mark in some languages
  2E42 ⹂ double low-reversed-9 quotation mark
  301F 〟 low double prime quotation mark
201F ‟ Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
  =double reversed comma quotation mark
  has same semantic as 201C “, but differs in appearance

General punctuation

2020 † Dagger
  =obelisk, long cross, oblong cross
  2E38 ⸸ turned dagger
2021 ‡ Double Dagger
  =diesis, double obelisk
  2E4B ⹋ triple dagger
2022 • Bullet
  =black small circle
  00B7 · middle dot
  2024 ․ one dot leader
  2219 ∙ bullet operator
  25D8 ◘ inverse bullet
  25E6 ◦ white bullet
2023 ‣ Triangular Bullet
  220E ∎ end of proof
  25B8 ▸ black right-pointing small triangle
2024 ․ One Dot Leader
  also used as an Armenian semicolon (mijaket)
  00B7 · middle dot
  2022 • bullet
  2219 ∙ bullet operator
  002E . full stop
2025 ‥ Two Dot Leader
  002E . 002E .
2026 … Horizontal Ellipsis
  =three dot leader
  22EE ⋮ vertical ellipsis
  FE19 ︙ presentation form for vertical horizontal ellipsis
  002E . 002E . 002E .
2027 ‧ Hyphenation Point
  visible symbol used to indicate correct positions for word breaking, as in dic·tion·ar·ies

Separators

2028  Line Separator
  may be used to represent this semantic unambiguously
2029  Paragraph Separator
  may be used to represent this semantic unambiguously

Format characters

202A  Left-To-Right Embedding
  commonly abbreviated LRE
202B  Right-To-Left Embedding
  commonly abbreviated RLE
202C  Pop Directional Formatting
  commonly abbreviated PDF
202D  Left-To-Right Override
  commonly abbreviated LRO
202E  Right-To-Left Override
  commonly abbreviated RLO

Space

202F  Narrow No-Break Space
  commonly abbreviated NNBSP
  a narrow form of a no-break space, typically the width of a thin space or a mid space
  00A0  no-break space
  2005  four-per-em space
  2009  thin space
  <noBreak> 0020 

General punctuation

2030 ‰ Per Mille Sign
  =permille, per thousand
  used, for example, in measures of blood alcohol content, salinity, etc.
  0025 % percent sign
  0609 ؉ arabic-indic per mille sign
2031 ‱ Per Ten Thousand Sign
  =permyriad
  percent of a percent, rarely used
  0025 % percent sign
  060A ؊ arabic-indic per ten thousand sign
2032 ′ Prime
  =minutes, feet
  0027 ' apostrophe
  00B4 ´ acute accent
  02B9 ʹ modifier letter prime
2033 ″ Double Prime
  =seconds, inches
  0022 " quotation mark
  02BA ʺ modifier letter double prime
  201D ” right double quotation mark
  3003 〃 ditto mark
  301E 〞 double prime quotation mark
  2032 ′ 2032 ′
2034 ‴ Triple Prime
  =lines (old measure, 1/12 of an inch)
  2032 ′ 2032 ′ 2032 ′
2035 ‵ Reversed Prime
  0060 ` grave accent
2036 ‶ Reversed Double Prime
  301D 〝 reversed double prime quotation mark
  2035 ‵ 2035 ‵
2037 ‷ Reversed Triple Prime
  2035 ‵ 2035 ‵ 2035 ‵
2038 ‸ Caret
  2303 ⌃ up arrowhead
  A788 ꞈ modifier letter low circumflex accent

Quotation marks

2039 ‹ Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
  =left pointing single guillemet
  usually opening, sometimes closing
  003C < less-than sign
  2329 〈 left-pointing angle bracket
  3008 〈 left angle bracket
203A › Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
  =right pointing single guillemet
  usually closing, sometimes opening
  003E > greater-than sign
  232A 〉 right-pointing angle bracket
  3009 〉 right angle bracket

General punctuation

203B ※ Reference Mark
  =Japanese kome
  =Urdu paragraph separator
  0FBF ྿ tibetan ku ru kha bzhi mig can
  200AD 𠂭

Double punctuation for vertical text

203C ‼ Double Exclamation Mark
  0021 ! exclamation mark
  0021 ! 0021 !

General punctuation

203D ‽ Interrobang
  0021 ! exclamation mark
  003F ? question mark
  2E18 ⸘ inverted interrobang
  1F679 🙹 heavy interrobang ornament
203E ‾ Overline
  =spacing overscore
  0020  0305 ◌̅
203F ‿ Undertie
  =Greek enotikon
  2323 ⌣ smile
2040 ⁀ Character Tie
  =z notation sequence concatenation
  2322 ⌢ frown
2041 ⁁ Caret Insertion Point
  proofreader's mark: insert here
  22CC ⋌ right semidirect product
2042 ⁂ Asterism
2043 ⁃ Hyphen Bullet
  002D - hyphen-minus
2044 ⁄ Fraction Slash
  =solidus (in typography)
  for composing arbitrary fractions
  002F / solidus
  2215 ∕ division slash

Brackets

2045 ⁅ Left Square Bracket With Quill
  2E20 ⸠ left vertical bar with quill
  2E55 ⹕ left square bracket with stroke
2046 ⁆ Right Square Bracket With Quill

Double punctuation for vertical text

2047 ⁇ Double Question Mark
  003F ? 003F ?
2048 ⁈ Question Exclamation Mark
  003F ? 0021 !
2049 ⁉ Exclamation Question Mark
  0021 ! 003F ?

General punctuation

204A ⁊ Tironian Sign Et
  Irish Gaelic, Old English, ...
  0026 & ampersand
  2E52 ⹒ tironian sign capital et
  1F670 🙰 script ligature et ornament
204B ⁋ Reversed Pilcrow Sign
  00B6 ¶ pilcrow sign
  2E4D ⹍ paragraphus mark
204C ⁌ Black Leftwards Bullet
204D ⁍ Black Rightwards Bullet
204E ⁎ Low Asterisk
  002A * asterisk
  0359 ◌͙ combining asterisk below
204F ⁏ Reversed Semicolon
  used occasionally in Sindhi when Sindhi is written in the Arabic script
  003B ; semicolon
  061B ‎؛‎ arabic semicolon
2050 ⁐ Close Up
  editing mark
  AB5B ꭛ modifier breve with inverted breve
2051 ⁑ Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
2052 ⁒ Commercial Minus Sign
  =abzüglich (German), med avdrag av (Swedish), piska (Swedish, "whip")
  a common glyph variant and fallback representation looks like ./.
  may also be used as a dingbat to indicate correctness
  used in Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a related borrowed form with different sound
  0025 % percent sign
  066A ٪ arabic percent sign
  00F7 ÷ division sign
2053 ⁓ Swung Dash
  007E ~ tilde
2054 ⁔ Inverted Undertie
2055 ⁕ Flower Punctuation Mark
  =phul, puspika
  used as a punctuation mark with Syloti Nagri, Bengali and other Indic scripts
  274B ❋ heavy eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk

Archaic punctuation

2056 ⁖ Three Dot Punctuation
  10FB ჻ georgian paragraph separator

General punctuation

2057 ⁗ Quadruple Prime
  2032 ′ 2032 ′ 2032 ′ 2032 ′

Archaic punctuation

See also historic punctuation with multiple dots in the range 2E2A-2E2D.
2058 ⁘ Four Dot Punctuation
2059 ⁙ Five Dot Punctuation
  =Greek pentonkion
  =quincunx
  2684 ⚄ die face-5
205A ⁚ Two Dot Punctuation
  historically used to indicate the end of a sentence or change of speaker
  extends from baseline to cap height
  FE30 ︰ presentation form for vertical two dot leader
  1015B 𐅛 greek acrophonic epidaurean two
205B ⁛ Four Dot Mark
  used by scribes in the margin as highlighter mark
  this is centered on the line, but extends beyond top and bottom of the line
205C ⁜ Dotted Cross
  used by scribes in the margin as highlighter mark
205D ⁝ Tricolon
  =Epidaurean acrophonic symbol three
  22EE ⋮ vertical ellipsis
  2AF6 ⫶ triple colon operator
  FE19 ︙ presentation form for vertical horizontal ellipsis
205E ⁞ Vertical Four Dots
  used in dictionaries to indicate legal but undesirable word break
  glyph extends the whole height of the line
  2E3D ⸽ vertical six dots

Space

205F  Medium Mathematical Space
  abbreviated MMSP
  four-eighteenths of an em
  0020  space

Format character

2060  Word Joiner
  commonly abbreviated WJ
  a zero width non-breaking space (only)
  intended for disambiguation of functions for byte order mark
  FEFF  zero width no-break space

Invisible operators

2061  Function Application
  contiguity operator indicating application of a function
2062  Invisible Times
  contiguity operator indicating multiplication
2063  Invisible Separator
  =invisible comma
  contiguity operator indicating that adjacent mathematical symbols form a list, e.g. when no visible comma is used between multiple indices
2064  Invisible Plus
  contiguity operator indicating addition

Format characters

2066  Left-To-Right Isolate
  commonly abbreviated LRI
2067  Right-To-Left Isolate
  commonly abbreviated RLI
2068  First Strong Isolate
  commonly abbreviated FSI
2069  Pop Directional Isolate
  commonly abbreviated PDI

Deprecated

Use of these characters is strongly discouraged.
206A  Inhibit Symmetric Swapping
206B  Activate Symmetric Swapping
206C  Inhibit Arabic Form Shaping
206D  Activate Arabic Form Shaping
206E  National Digit Shapes
206F  Nominal Digit Shapes