Special Symbols

Special Symbols is a categorized symbol palette. The page groups 68 commonly used symbols into five sets: math, arrows, decorative, currency and miscellaneous. Click any symbol to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it into a document, a chat, a profile name or a code comment. These are ordinary Unicode text characters, not images. It is not a full Unicode character map: there's no complete Greek alphabet, no phonetic symbols and no complete superscript or subscript sets. Only a small, everyday selection is included.

How to use

1. Open the page and you'll see the symbols grouped by category: Math symbols (20), Arrows (14), Decorative (16), Currency (7) and Miscellaneous (11).
2. Click the symbol you want. The tile briefly shows a green check for about a second to confirm the copy.
3. Hover over a symbol to see a tooltip with its name, for example 'Not equal'. The tooltip is in English in the English interface and Chinese in the Chinese one. The tiles themselves don't carry text labels.
4. To search, use the box at the top. Searching by name works with both Chinese names (for example 箭头, 版权, 星) and English names (for example arrow, copyright, star). You can also type or paste a symbol itself, such as ≠, to check whether it's in the list.
5. Switch to your target app and paste with Ctrl+V (Command+V on a Mac).

Search examples

These results come from running the tool's own filter logic. Searching the Chinese word for arrow (箭头) returns all 14 arrows. Searching 星 (star) returns only the filled star and the outline star. Searching 度 (degree) returns the degree sign, the Indian rupee sign, the Celsius sign and the Fahrenheit sign; the rupee shows up only because its Chinese name happens to contain that character. Searching 心 (heart) returns the heart symbols but also everything whose name contains 实心 ('solid'), such as the solid arrow, circle and square. In short, the search is simple substring matching on names, so more specific words give cleaner results.

Supported range and known limits

• Search matches Chinese names, English names (case-insensitive, for example 'arrow', 'star' or 'copyright'), or an exact copy of the symbol.
• Words that don't appear in a name (for instance 符 or 括号) also return nothing. There are no synonyms and no pinyin search.
• The set is 68 symbols. It does not include brackets, the full Greek alphabet, phonetic symbols, Braille or circled numbers.
• Copying depends on the browser's clipboard API. If the browser refuses, you get no error message and no green check.
• Whether a symbol displays properly depends on the font in the receiving app. A few (such as ✓, ✗, ➜ and ➤) can appear as empty boxes in older fonts or systems, or look stylistically different from their neighbors.
• The ¥ tile is labeled 'Yuan/Yen' because both currencies share one character. That's not a bug, but write the currency name in your text when it needs to be unambiguous.

FAQ: Can I use these in usernames and nicknames?

You can try, but each platform has its own rules. Some limit special characters in names, some filter certain symbols, and even if the name saves, other people's devices may show an empty box if their fonts lack the glyph. Test on the target platform before committing.

FAQ: Anything to watch for when using currency and math symbols in code?

They're plain characters, so pasting them into text is fine. In programming, though, $ often has special meaning (regular expressions, template strings, shell variables) and may need escaping. Also, ≤ and ≥ are single Unicode characters and are not the same as the <= and >= operators in code, so don't paste them where an operator is expected.

FAQ: Can I put these in HTML?

Yes. If your file is saved as UTF-8 and the head declares the charset, you can write the characters straight into the markup. If you see garbled text, the file encoding is usually not consistently UTF-8.

FAQ: Why does a pasted symbol look different in Word?

If the current font has no glyph for the character, the application substitutes another font to draw it, so the weight or style can look slightly different. That's normal font fallback, and you can assign a font that supports the symbol to that character manually.

Privacy and processing

According to the code, the symbol list is built into the page and filtering happens in your browser. There are no network requests and your search terms aren't uploaded. Clicking a symbol just calls the browser's clipboard function to write that character to your system clipboard.