Copy and Paste Symbols

How to copy and paste a symbol

1. Find it. Type what it looks like or what it’s called — star, heart, tick, arrow, euro, music, bow — or tap a category such as Aesthetic & nickname, Arrows or Math.
2. Tap it. The symbol is copied to your clipboard at once. The line under the bar shows its name and code point, so you know exactly what you copied.
3. Paste it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac), or long-press the text box on a phone and choose Paste.

Every symbol you tap is also added to the bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap several — ꧁ ★ ♡ ★ ꧂ — then press Copy all to paste them together. You can type in that bar too, to build a whole name or line before copying it. Your last 32 symbols appear under Recently copied the next time you visit; that list is kept only in this browser.

You can also paste a symbol into the search box to find out what it is: paste ✓ and the tool shows check mark.

Popular symbols and their codes

Each symbol is a Unicode character, so it is plain text: it pastes into any app, keeps working when you copy it again, and needs no image or font download. The code point identifies the character everywhere; the HTML entity lets you write it in a web page.

What’s in the collection

The page offers 2,059 different characters in 24 categories, all taken from the Unicode 18.0 character database, with their official names. A few, such as ♡, ★ and ✓, appear in more than one category.

• Aesthetic & nickname — the decorations people use in bios and game names: ꧁ ꧂, ༺ ༻, ✧, ⋆, ˚, ₊, ୨ ୧, ʚ ɞ, ꒰ ꒱, 彡 and ♛.
• Hearts, stars & flowers — ♡ ♥ ❤ ❥ ❣ ღ, ★ ☆ ✦ ✧ ✩ ✪, ✿ ❀ ❁ and the snowflakes ❄ ❅ ❆.
• Check marks and crosses — ✓ ✔ ✗ ✘ and the checkboxes ☐ ☑ ☒; the religious crosses ✝ ✞ ☦ are in their own category.
• Arrows, math and currency — the full Unicode arrow block (→ ⇒ ↗ ⟶), operators such as ± × ÷ ≠ ≈ ≤ √ ∞ ∑ ∫, and money signs from $ € £ ¥ to ₹ ₽ ₺ ₿.
• Numbers, letters and small text — fractions (½ ⅓ ¾), Roman numerals (Ⅻ), circled numbers (① ❶), circled letters (Ⓐ ⓐ), superscripts and subscripts (x² H₂O) and the Greek alphabet.
• Music, weather, zodiac and games — ♩ ♪ ♫ 𝄞, ☀ ☁ ☂ ☾, ♈︎ to ♓︎ and the planets, chess pieces ♔ ♞, card suits ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ and dice ⚀ ⚅.
• Keyboard, box drawing and Japanese marks — ⌘ ⌥ ⇧ ⏎, lines and corners for text tables (┌ ─ ┐), and marks such as 〒 ※ 〆.

Symbols that phones normally draw as color pictures (☕, ⚽, ✅) are on the emoji page instead. The zodiac signs are an exception: here they carry an invisible “text style” selector (U+FE0E), which asks the device to draw ♈︎ as a plain symbol rather than a purple emoji tile — most apps respect it, some ignore it.

Why a symbol can look different, or show as a box

A symbol is only a number until a font draws it, and every phone and computer uses its own fonts. The same ★ is a little rounder on an iPhone than on Windows, and a rare character can show up as an empty box (“tofu”) or a question mark on a device whose fonts don’t include it. The common symbols — stars, hearts, arrows, check marks, currency and math — are in every modern system. Musical notation (𝄞), playing cards (🂡) and the newest characters are the most likely to be missing on older phones.

Apps can also filter characters. Many games and sites accept only certain letters in usernames, and a symbol that disappears or turns into “?” after you paste it was usually removed by the app, not broken by the copy.

Typing symbols without this page

• Windows: press Win + . and open the symbols tab of the emoji panel. With a number pad, Alt codes still work: Alt+0169 ©, Alt+0174 ®, Alt+0153 ™, Alt+0176 °, Alt+0128 €.
• Mac: Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the Character Viewer. Option+G types ©, Option+R ®, Option+2 ™, Option+8 • and Option+; types ….
• Phones: long-press a key for its relatives — the $ key for other currencies, the hyphen for – and —, quotation marks for « » and „ “.

For whole words in a different style — 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉, Ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ — use the font generator; to check how long a bio with symbols is, use the character counter.

Privacy

The symbol list loads once from this site and everything else happens in your browser: what you search for, tap or type is never sent anywhere. The Recently copied list is saved only in this browser, and clearing your site data removes it.

Frequently asked questions

Last updated: October 15, 2026