To enter such a special characters or symbols you need to use 4 characters using the associated "numeric character reference" code or the "character entity reference" code.
However you browser may not support all the character reference.
Numeric character reference : It is the numeric representation of a given character. To use the numeric character reference in your HTML code, use the following format:
&#Numeric character reference;
For example, to display the © symbol using the numeric character reference, enter:
©
Character entity reference : It is the standard name of a given character. To use the character entity reference in your HTML code, use the following format instead:
&Character entity reference;
For example, to display the © symbol using the character entity reference:
©
Following lists contain both Character entity reference as well as Numeric character reference :
| Punctuation | HTML Entity (case sensitive) | ISO Latin-1 code | name or meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
|   |   | en space | |
|   |   | em space | |
| ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark |
| „ | „ | „ | double low-9 quotation mark |
| † | † | † | dagger |
| ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | double dagger |
| ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | per mille sign |
| • | • | • | bullet = black small circle |
| … | … | … | horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader |
| ′ | ′ | ′ | prime = minutes = feet |
| – | – | – | en dash |
| — | — | — | em dash |
| ¡ | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation |
| ¿ | ¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark |
| " | " | " | quotation mark |
| “ | “ | “ | left double curly quote |
| ” | ” | ” | right double curly quote |
| ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | left single curly quote |
| ’ | ’ | ’ | right single curly quote |
| « » | « » | « » | guillemets (European-style quotation marks) |
| (Its there, but you can't see it!) | |   | non-breaking space |
| Symbols | |||
| & | & | & | ampersand |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | cent |
| © | © | © | copyright |
| × | × | × | multiplication |
| ÷ | ÷ | ÷ | divide |
| > | > | > | greater than |
| < | < | < | less than |
| µ | µ | µ | micron |
| · | · | · | middle dot |
| ¶ | ¶ | ¶ | pilcrow (paragraph sign) |
| ± | ± | ± | plus/minus |
| € | € | € | Euro |
| £ | £ | £ | British Pound Sterling |
| ® | ® | ® | registered |
| § | § | § | section |
| ™ | ™ | ™ | trademark |
| ¤ | ¤ | ¤ | currency |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ | Japanese Yen |
| ¦ | ¦ | ¦ | broken vertical bar |
| ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | spacing diaeresis |
| ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
| ¬ | ¬ | ¬ | negation |
| | ­ | ­ | soft hyphen |
| ¯ | ¯ | ¯ | spacing macron |
| ° | ° | ° | degree |
| ² | ² | ² | superscript 2 |
| ³ | ³ | ³ | superscript 3 |
| ¸ | ¸ | ¸ | spacing cedilla |
| ¹ | ¹ | ¹ | superscript 1 |
| º | º | º | masculine ordinal indicator |
| ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | fraction 1/4 |
| ½ | ½ | ½ | fraction 1/2 |
| ¾ | ¾ | ¾ | fraction 3/4 |
| Diacritics | |||
| á Á | á Á | á Á | lower-case "a" with acute accent upper-case "A" with acute accent |
| à À | à À | à À | lower-case "a" with grave accent upper-case "A" with grave accent |
| â Â | â Â | â Â | lower-case "a" with circumflex upper-case "A" with circumflex |
| å Å | å Å | å Å | lower-case "a" with ring upper-case "A" with ring |
| ã Ã | ã Ã | ã Ã | lower-case "a" with tilde upper-case "A" with tilde |
| ä Ä | ä Ä | ä Ä | lower-case "a" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "A" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| æ Æ | æ Æ | æ Æ | lower-case "ae" ligature upper-case "AE" ligature |
| ç Ç | ç Ç | ç Ç | lower-case "c" with cedilla upper-case "C" with cedilla |
| é É | é É | é É | lower-case "e" with acute accent upper-case "E" with acute accent |
| è È | è È | è È | lower-case "e" with grave accent upper-case "E" with grave accent |
| ê Ê | ê Ê | ê Ê | lower-case "e" with circumflex upper-case "E" with circumflex |
| ë Ë | ë Ë | ë Ë | lower-case "e" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "E" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| í Í | í Í | í Í | lower-case "i" with acute accent upper-case "I" with acute accent |
| ì Ì | ì Ì | ì Ì | lower-case "i" with grave accent upper-case "I" with grave accent |
| î Î | î Î | î Î | lower-case "i" with circumflex upper-case "I" with circumflex |
| ï Ï | ï Ï | ï Ï | lower-case "i" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "I" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| ñ Ñ | ñ Ñ | ñ Ñ | lower-case "n" with tilde upper-case "N" with tilde |
| ó Ó | ó Ó | ó Ó | lower-case "o" with acute accent upper-case "O" with acute accent |
| ò Ò | ò Ò | ò Ò | lower-case "o" with grave accent upper-case "O" with grave accent |
| ô Ô | ô Ô | ô Ô | lower-case "o" with circumflex upper-case "O" with circumflex |
| ø Ø | ø Ø | ø Ø | lower-case "o" with slash upper-case "O" with slash |
| õ Õ | õ Õ | õ Õ | lower-case "o" with tilde upper-case "O" with tilde |
| ö Ö | ö Ö | ö Ö | lower-case "o" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "O" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| ß | ß | ß | ess-tsett |
| ú Ú | ú Ú | ú Ú | lower-case "u" with acute accent upper-case "U" with acute accent |
| ù Ù | ù Ù | ù Ù | lower-case "u" with grave accent upper-case "U" with grave accent |
| û Û | û Û | û Û | lower-case "u" with circumflex upper-case "U" with circumflex |
| ü Ü | ü Ü | ü Ü | lower-case "u" with diaeresis/umlaut upper-case "U" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| ÿ | ÿ | ÿ | lower-case "y" with diaeresis/umlaut |
| ´ ` | ´ ` | acute accent with no letter grave accent/reversed apostrophe with no letter | |
| Letter like Symbols | |||
| ℘ | ℘ | ℘ | script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p |
| ℑ | ℑ | ℑ | blackletter capital I = imaginary part |
| ℜ | ℜ | ℜ | blackletter capital R = real part symbol |
| Mathematical Operators | |||
| ∅ | ∅ | ∅ | empty set = null set = diameter |
| ∑ | ∑ | ∑ | sum sign |
| − | − | − | minus sign |
| ∗ | ∗ | ∗ | asterisk operator |
| √ | √ | √ | square root |
| ∞ | ∞ | ∞ | infinity |
| ∩ | ∩ | ∩ | intersection = cap |
| ∼ | ∼ | ∼ | tilde operator |
| ≈ | ≈ | ≈ | almost equal to = asymptotic to |
| ≡ | ≡ | ≡ | identical to |
| ≤ | ≤ | ≤ | less-than or equal to |
| ≥ | ≥ | ≥ | greater-than or equal to |
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