You’ve probably seen a few fun symbols like musical notes ♫, smiley faces ☺, or hearts ♥ posted to Facebook or Twitter. But did you know there are dozens of interesting, non-alpha-numeric characters you can use in status updates and tweets?
Here are 167 of them I found…
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Weather/Astrological
- sunshine – sun
- sunburst
- sun
- cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
- raining – rain – umbrella
- snow – snowman
- shooting star
- star solid
- star outline
- waxing crescent moon
- waning crescent moon
- lightning
- thunderstorm
- degree – e.g. 45°
- Celsius
- Fahrenheit
- Aries
- Taurus
- Gemini
- Cancer
- Leo
- Virgo
- Libra
- Scorpio
- Sagitarius
- Capricorn
- Aquarius
- Pisces
Money
- cent
- pound
- currency
- yen
- euro sign
Publishing & Punctuation
- section
- copyright
- Sound Recording Copyright
- registered trademark
- trademark
- Service Mark
- superscript 1
- superscript 2
- superscript 3
- middle dot
- bullet = black small circle
- spacing cedilla
- bang bang, or two exclamation points…it’s one character
- paragraph symbol)
- inverted question mark
- care of
Math
- 1 in a circle
- 2 in a circle
- 3 in a circle
- 4 in a circle
- 5 in a circle
- 6 in a circle
- 7 in a circle
- 8 in a circle
- 9 in a circle
- 10 in a circle
- fraction 1/4
- fraction 1/2
- fraction 3/4
- multiplication
- multiplication sign X
- heavy multiplication sign X
- division
- numero symbol – number sign
Checks & Checkboxes
- check mark
- heavy check mark
- ballot X
- heavy ballot X
- check box
- check box check mark
- ballot box with X
Arrows
- (black triangle pointing right)
- (black triangle pointing left)
- (up and down arrows)
- left-pointing index finger
- right-pointing index finger
- left-pointing index finger
- upwards pointing index finger
- right pointing index finger
- downwards pointing index finger
Smilies
- frowning face
- smiley face
- black smiley face
Chess & Cards
- White King
- White Queen
- White Rook
- White Bishop
- White Knight
- White Pawn
- Black King
- Black Queen
- Black Rook
- Black Bishop
- Black Knight
- Black Pawn
- black spade suit
- red diamond suit
- black club suit = shamrock
- red spade suit
- black heart suit = valentine
- black diamond suit
- red club suit
Music
- musical quarter note
- musical eighth note
- musical single bar note
- musical double bar note
- flat note
- natural note
- sharp note
Scissors & pencils
- cut above
- cut here
- cut below
- scissors
- signature – sign here
- pencil diagonal down
- pencil
- pencil diagonal up
Crosses & Religious Symbols
- Latin Roman Cross
- Latin Cross 3D shadow
- Latin Cross outline
- Maltese Cross
- St. Andrew’s Cross
- Star of David
Pipes and Wallpaper
- T pipe
- straight pipe
- left elbow pipe
- right elbow pipe
- light wallpaper
- medium light wallpaper
- medium wallpaper
- dark wallpaper
- half wallpaper
Misc
- Male
- Female
- black diamond with question mark)
- block with white circle)
- block with filled white circle)
- lozenge
- Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol
- Ohm
- Inverted Ohm
- ascending node
- descending node
- conjunction
- opposition
- phone
- phone symbol outline
- public pay phone
- film reel – tape spool
- airport jet airplane
- envelope mail email
- victory sign
- hot springs
- skull & crossbones
- caution sign
- radioactive sign
- biohazard sign
- peace sign
- yin & yang
- I have no idea???
- swirl
- birdhouse?
- 8 point star
- butterfly, not actually 1 symbol but 3 combined.
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Know of any I missed? Got any favorites?
The easiest way to put one of these symbols into a post/tweet, is to highlight it with your mouse, hit control-c to copy, click into the status update/tweet you’re writing and hit control-v to paste. So, you might want to bookmark this post so you can quickly add symbols to any posts/tweets from now on.
Show Your Creativity
It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun. Create the most creative symbol-laden message you can come up with. Post it in the comments, post it to Facebook, post it to Twitter.
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38 Comments
I think ஓ is a Tamil character "oo".
I don't see ॐ (a Devanagari Ohm) and I'd really like to find a working character alt code for it for FB/Twitter, so I don't have to cut/paste.
I'm looking for a 0 in a circle the same as the 1 to 10. Any ideas?
Sorry, but I put all the ones I could find on the page already. Didn't see a 0 in a circle.
i've got an i pad and i was wondering if i could get those emojis on the keyboard? Where did you find those ones?
[LatinRomanCross]
I don't know how to type By using phone of Android
How do you do this?? copy paste what paul what????? oh my goodness
There's also this one: ▲
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Misc 28 is a symbol of Hinduism religion from India.
Is there a Twitter emoticon for "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs Down" ?
I don't believe so. Strange because I would think those would be 2 popular emoticons, and there are certainly a lot of far less useful ones available.
ive tried to press left alt while pressing and holding fn at the same time and got no results for symblos on my laptop why please explain
Hi daniela, I've never tried to use the alt-fn keys to post symbols. I just go to this post, highlight the symbol I want and it control-c to copy. Then I go to twitter, click my cursor into the message field and hit control-v to paste.
Wowww! A Great Collection Paul. I loved them.