Symbols Copy and Paste

Clicking is all it takes. A symbol is copied the moment you click it, and also added to a box where you can build a line.

1. Pick a group from the tabs: Popular, Arrows, Stars and flowers, Hearts and cards, Shapes, Checks and crosses, Math, Fractions and powers, Greek letters, Currency, Punctuation and marks, Accented letters, Music, Weather and nature, Objects and tech, Signs and symbols or Lines and borders. All shows everything.
2. Or type a name into the search box, such as heart, arrow, copyright, euro, snowflake, command or recycle.
3. Click a symbol. It is copied to your clipboard at once and added to Your selection, a text box under the grid.
4. Click more symbols to build a line. Use Add space to separate them and Clear to start over.
5. Press Copy all to copy the whole line, then paste it where you need it. The Recent tab brings back the last 24 symbols you used.

Hover over a symbol to see its name, or its Unicode code such as U+00A9 when it has no name. Recent symbols are remembered in this browser only and are not sent anywhere.

Unicode gives every character a number called a code point. The copyright sign is U+00A9, the euro sign is U+20AC and the degree sign is U+00B0. When you click a symbol here, the page copies the character itself as text, not a picture. Your device then draws it using whatever font the destination app is using, which is why the same symbol can look a little different on different screens. Behind the scenes UTF-8 stores each code point as bytes: the euro sign takes three, and the UTF-8 encoder and decoder shows them. The hexadecimal 20AC is 8,364 in decimal, which the number base converter can confirm.

For symbols you use every day, direct typing is faster than a website. These work on a standard US setup:

Alt codes need the numeric keypad with Num Lock on, and shortcuts differ by keyboard layout. For anything outside that short list, such as arrows, stars, checkmarks, fractions or Greek letters, a library like this one is quicker.

Typical jobs include the copyright and trademark signs in a footer, the degree sign in a temperature, arrows and bullets in a bio or slide, checkmarks in a to-do list, currency signs such as the euro and the rupee in prices, and multiplication, division and not-equal signs when writing math in plain text. Fractions and superscripts such as ½ and ² also help when a format cannot do real formatting, for instance in a plain-text email, a spreadsheet cell or a product title. For styled letters rather than symbols, use the font generator, and for a name with decoration try the fancy name generator.

• Search matches names and groups. Well-known symbols have names, so searching euro finds the euro sign, and searching arrow shows the whole Arrows group. Many symbols have no individual name; find those by browsing their group, or paste the symbol itself into the search box.
• Looks vary. Symbols are text, so appearance depends on the font of the app showing them. Some weather and object symbols may show as color emoji on phones, and rare ones can appear as an empty box on very old devices.
• Accessibility. Screen readers may announce each symbol by name or skip it. Do not use a checkmark or arrow as the only way to carry meaning, and keep long strings of decorative symbols out of bios.
• Not included. There are no full emoji sets, kaomoji or flags.