Punctuation Symbols
90+ quotes, dashes, bullets & typographic marks. Professional typography made easy.
Double Quotation Marks
Single Quotation Marks
CJK Brackets
Dashes & Hyphens
Ellipsis & Dots
Exclamation & Question
Bullets & List Markers
Section & Reference Marks
Primes & Apostrophes
Common Symbols
Punctuation Packs
Ready-to-use collections
Smart Quotes
8 items
Dash Set
6 items
Bullet Points
7 items
Legal & Business
8 items
Spanish Punctuation
6 items
Special Marks
7 items
Beyond basic periods and commas, Unicode offers a rich set of typographic punctuation marks that elevate your writing from amateur to professional. From proper quotation marks to em dashes and ellipsis, these characters make a real difference in document quality and readability.
Most people only use the punctuation available on their keyboard, but professional typographers, writers, and designers know that Unicode offers far superior alternatives. Curly quotes look more polished than straight quotes. An em dash reads better than two hyphens. A proper ellipsis (single character) is typographically correct compared to three periods.
Our punctuation collection includes quotation marks in all styles (single, double, angle, corner), dashes (en dash, em dash, figure dash), dots and leaders, reference marks, and special spaces (thin space, hair space, non-breaking space). Perfect for writers, editors, designers, and anyone who cares about typography.
Pro tip: once you start using proper typographic punctuation, you will never go back to keyboard substitutes. The difference between straight quotes and curly quotes alone transforms the professionalism of any document, email, or published content.
How this Punctuation Symbols collection is organised
This Punctuation Symbols collection gathers every Unicode character that belongs in the category plus the close relatives people tend to search for in the same sitting. The grid above is grouped so the most-copied items sit at the top — for Punctuation Symbols that means the canonical Unicode characters first, close stylistic relatives second, and the longer tail of rarer variants at the bottom. Click any tile and the character goes straight to your clipboard; a small toast at the bottom-right confirms the copy so you can keep browsing.
What makes this collection different from a generic "copy-paste site" is that every character here is real Unicode text, not an image. That means the character survives every redraw: if you paste it into Instagram, Discord, TikTok, a Word document, a Google Doc, a Figma file or a Markdown README, the recipient's device renders it with its own font, at the size of the surrounding text, with correct accessibility semantics for screen readers. No installation, no app permission, and nothing leaves your browser.
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FAQ
En dash (–) is used for ranges (2020–2024) and is the width of the letter 'n'. Em dash (—) is used for breaks in thought—like this—and is the width of the letter 'm'.
Smart quotes are curved quotation marks used in professional publishing, unlike straight quotes found on standard keyboards. They indicate opening and closing of quoted passages and appear in most word processors automatically.
The interrobang ‽ combines a question mark and exclamation point into one symbol. It expresses excited disbelief or rhetorical questions, like 'What did you say‽'
Guillemets «» are the standard quotation marks in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and other languages. They're also used decoratively in design and typography.
The pilcrow ¶ marks the start of a new paragraph. It's commonly used in editing, word processors (Show/Hide), and legal documents to reference specific paragraphs.
Copy it from here! On Windows, Alt+0176 works. On Mac, Option+Shift+8. The degree symbol is used for temperature (72°F) and angles (90°).
The proper ellipsis is a single character (…) not three periods (...). Using the single character ensures correct spacing and prevents awkward line breaks.
Daggers are used for footnotes when asterisks are already used, or in order: * † ‡. The dagger (†) is also used to indicate deceased persons, especially in genealogy.