HTML Symbol Entities
Some characters are reserved and have special meaning in HTML. Such as less than (<) which is the beginning of the HTML tags. If need the browser to display these characters correctly, we must entry character entities in the HTML source code. Character entity has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entity name, or # and an entity number, and a semicolon (;). If we want to display less than in HTML, we need to enter < (entity name) or < (entity number). Among the entity list, we can use a lot of symbol entities in layout design. The advantage to use the entity name is very easier to remember, and the disadvantage is that not all browsers support the newest entity names. However, almost all browsers have good support on the entity number.
Most Common Entities
| Symbol | HTML Code | HTML Entity | Unicode | CSS Code | Hex Code | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| & | & | & | U+00026 | \0026 | & | Ampersand |
| * | * | * | U+0002A | \002A | * | Asterisk |
| @ | @ | @ | U+00040 | \0040 | @ | Commercial At |
| % | % | % | U+00025 | \0025 | % | Percent Sign |
| ® | ® | ® | U+000AE | \00AE | ® | Registered Sign |
| © | © | © | U+000A9 | \00A9 | © | Copyright Sign |
| ™ | ™ | ™ | U+02122 | \2122 | ™ | Trade Mark Sign |
|   | | U+000A0 | \00A0 |   | No-break Space | |
| ° | ° | ° | U+000B0 | \00B0 | ° | Degree Sign |
| ℃ | ℃ | U+02103 | \2103 | ℃ | Degree Celsius | |
| ℉ | ℉ | U+02109 | \2109 | ℉ | Degree Fahrenheit |
Currency Symbols
| Symbol | HTML Code | HTML Entity | Unicode | CSS Code | Hex Code | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ | $ | $ | U+00024 | \0024 | $ | Dollar Sign |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | U+000A2 | \00A2 | ¢ | Cent Sign |
| £ | £ | £ | U+000A3 | \00A3 | £ | Pound Sign |
| € | € | € | U+020AC | \20AC | € | Euro Sign |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ | U+000A5 | \00A5 | ¥ | Yen Sign |
| ₹ | ₹ | U+020B9 | \20B9 | ₹ | Indian Rupee Sign |
Random Unicodes
U+216
Latin Capital Letter U With Inverted Breve
U+27F
Latin Small Letter Reversed R With Fishhook
U+101
Latin Small Letter A With Macron
U+1C4
Latin Capital Letter Dz With Caron
U+273
Latin Small Letter N With Retroflex Hook
U+16C
Latin Capital Letter U With Breve
U+2B67
North East Triangle-headed Arrow
U+2962
Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Up Above Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Down
U+26F5
Sailboat
U+2166
Roman Numeral Seven
U+2345
Apl Functional Symbol Leftwards Vane
U+2040
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