Unicode Characters
List of Unicode characters and entities used frequently in the Encyclopedia and not on the standard US keyboard.
- For letters with diacritics, only one example is given. All other vowels or consonants with that mark will be found in the same subset.
- Some characters, like the middle dot (
U+00B7), have multiple possibilities. For consistency, always use the one indicated here. Others have close relations with completely different meanings, like £ and ₤, the pound and lira signs, so be careful to select the correct one. - If you cannot find a character, switch fonts to Arial Unicode MS. While Times New Roman has < 3,000 characters, Arial Unicode MS has 38,917.
- For the complete table of Unicode characters, see FileFormat.Info. For character entities, see Freeformatter.com.
- To quickly insert a character in ABBYY FineReader, type the Unicode number below in the Character code box of the Symbols window.
- In addition to the Symbols window in AFR,
you can also use the Windows Character Map to copy and paste
special characters into AFR:
- Type
character mapinto the Windows search bar to locate the application, or use the Start menu and navigate to .
- Type
| Block | Symbol | Name | Unicode U+ |
Decimal Char. Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin-1 Supplement | £ | pound sign | 00A3 | £ |
| § | section sign | 00A7 | § |
|
| ° | degree sign | 00B0 | ° |
|
| · | middle dot | 00B7 | · |
|
| ¼ | fraction one quarter | 00BC | ¼ |
|
| ½ | fraction one half | 00BD | ½ |
|
| ¾ | fraction three quarters | 00BE | ¾ |
|
| Æ | Latin capital letter AE | 00C6 | Æ |
|
| æ | Latin small letter AE | 00E6 | æ |
|
| × | multiplication sign | 00D7 | × |
|
| ø | small letter 'o' with stroke | 00F8 | × |
|
| Latin Extended-A | ā | small letter A with a macron | 0101 | |
| ă | small letter A with a breve | 0103 | ||
| ą | small letter A with an ogonek | 0105 | ||
| ć | small letter C with an acute | 0107 | ||
| ĉ | small letter C with a circumflex | 0109 | ||
| ċ | small letter C with a dot above | 010B | ||
| č | small letter C with a caron | 010D | ||
| ķ | small letter K with a cedilla | 0137 | ||
| Π| Latin capital ligature OE | 0152 | Π|
|
| œ | Latin small ligature OE | 0153 | œ |
|
| ſ | small letter long S | 017F | ſ |
|
| Latin Extended-B | ǎ | small letter A with a caron | 01CE | |
| ǘ | small letter U with diaeresis and acute | 01D8 | ||
| Basic Greek | α | Greek small letter alpha | 03B1 | |
| β | Greek small letter beta | 03B2 | ||
| γ | Greek small letter gamma | 03B3 | ||
| ε | Greek small letter epsilon | 03B5 | ||
| θ | Greek small letter theta | 03B8 | ||
| ϵ | Greek lunate epsilon | 03F5 | ||
| Latin Extended Additional | ạ | small letter A with a dot below | 1EA1 | |
| ả | small letter A with a hook above | 1EA35 | ||
| General Punctuation | – | en dash | 2013 | – |
| — | em dash | 2014 | — |
|
| ‘ | left single quotation mark | 2018 | ‘ |
|
| ’ | right single quotation mark | 2019 | ’ |
|
| “ | left double quotation mark | 201C | “ |
|
| ” | right double quotation mark | 201D | ” |
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| † | dagger | 2020 | ||
| • | bullet | 2022 | ||
| … | ellipses | 2026 | … |
|
| ⁂ | asterism | 2042 | ⁂ |
|
| ⁄ | fraction slash | 2044 | ⁄ |
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| Currency Symbols | ₤ | lira sign | 20A4 | |
| Letterlike Symbols | ℔ | l b bar symbol | 2114 | |
| Number Forms | ⅒ | fraction one tenth | 2152 | |
| ⅓ | fraction one third | 2153 | ||
| ⅔ | fraction two thirds | 2154 | ||
| ⅕ | fraction one fifth | 2155 | ||
| ⅖ | fraction two fifths | 2156 | ||
| ⅗ | fraction three fifths | 2157 | ||
| ⅘ | fraction four fifths | 2158 | ||
| ⅙ | fraction one sixth | 2159 | ||
| ⅚ | fraction five sixths | 215A | ||
| ⅛ | fraction one eighth | 215B | ||
| ⅜ | fraction three eighths | 215C | ||
| ⅝ | fraction five eighths | 215D | ||
| ⅞ | fraction seven eighths | 215E | ||
| Mathematical Operators | ∈ | element of | 2208 | ∈ |
| − | minus sign | 2212 | − |
|
| ∕ | division slash | 2215 | ∕ |
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| √ | square root | 221A | √ |
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| ∝ | proportional to | 221D | ||
| ∞ | infinity | 221E | ||
| ∫ | integral | 222B | ||
| ≈ | almost equal to | 2248 | ||
| ≠ | not equal to | 2260 | ||
| ≤ | less-than or equal to | 2264 | ||
| ≥ | greater-than or equal to | 2265 | ||
| ⊕ | circled plus | 2295 | ⊕ |
|
| ⊗ | circled times | 2297 | ⊗ |
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| Miscellaneous Technical | ⏑ | metrical breve | 23D1 | ⏑ |
| ⏒ | metrical long over short | 23D2 | ||
| ⏓ | metrical short over long | 23D3 | ||
| ⏔ | metrical long over two shorts | 23D4 | ||
| ⏕ | metrical two short over long | 23D5 | ||
| ⏖ | metrical two shorts joined | 23D6 | ||
| ⏗ | metrical triseme | 23D7 | ||
| ⏘ | metrical tetraseme | 23D8 | ||
| ⏙ | metrical pentaseme | 23D9 |