Special Character | Name of Special Character | Usage | Unicode | Keyboard shortcut |
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~ | Tilde | Used as an accent mark in Spanish | U + 007E | Shift + ` |
` | Grave accent | Used as an accent mark in French | U + 0060 | ` |
! | Exclamation mark | 1)Marks the termination as an exclamatory sentence or word. 2)Denotes the logic, not in programming languages. 3)In mathematics, it is used as a factorial mark. | U + 0021 | Shift + 1 |
@ | Ampersand | 1)Used in Gmail address for connecting usernames to domain names. 2)In accounting, used for expressing rates. 3)In social media, used before names. | U + 0040 | Shift + 2 |
# | Octothorpe | 1)Used for expressing comments in programming languages. 2)Used as hashtags in social media | U + 0023 | Shift + 3 |
$ | Dollar sign | 1)Used to express the currency value | U + 0024 | Shift + 4 |
% | Percentage symbol | 1)Used for denoting the percentage values. | U + 0025 | Shift + 5 |
^ | Caret or Circumflex | Used as the exponent in mathematics, Used as a shortcut for the CTRL key on the keyboard. | U + 005E | Shift + 6 |
& | Ampersand | 1)Used to connect sentences in English as "and". 2)In a spreadsheet used to combine formulas. | U + 0026 | Shift + 7 |
* | Asterisk | 1)Used in doing mathematics multiplication. 2)Used to denote the footnotes. | U + 002A | Shift + 8 |
( | Open parenthesis | Starts the text in brackets. | U + 0028 | Shift + 9 |
) | Close parenthesis | Ends the text in brackets | U + 0029 | Shift + 0 |
- | Hyphen, dash | 1)Used to do subtraction in mathematical calculations. 2) Dashes text of any language. | U + 002D | - |
_ | Underscore | 1)Used in place of the Space key when spaces are restricted in writing or typing. | U + 005F | Shift + - |
+ | Plus symbol | Used to perform the mathematical additions. | U + 002B | Shift + = |
= | Equal sign | Used to equate the RHS and LHS in mathematical equations. | U + 003D | = |
{ | Open curly brace | 1)Used to open a code block in some programming languages. 1)They are also used in mathematics to denote the sets. | U + 007B | Shift + [ |
} | Close curly brace | 1)Used to close blocks or statements in some programming languages. 2) It is used in mathematics to denote the set. | U + 007D | Shift + ] |
[ | Open bracket | 1)Starts the calculations in mathematics. 2)Used as the string validation in programming languages. | U + 005B | [ |
] | Close bracket | 1)Starts the calculations in mathematics. 2)Used as the string validation in programming languages. | U + 005D | ] |
: | Colon | Used to separate the address on websites | U + 003A | Shift + ; |
| | A vertical bar, Or Pipe | 1)Denotes the Boolean operation "OR". 2)Used as the delimiter in writing texts. | U + 007C | Shift + \ |
\ | Backslash | Differentiates the file location in the network path or URL. | U + 005C | \ |
; | Semicolon | 1) Connects the linked sentences in the text. 2) Terminates the code lines in some programming languages. 3) differentiates the lengthy listed things in writing text. | U + 003B | ; |
" | Double Quotation marks or inverted commas | 1) Used in grammar while denoting the direct speech spoken by a person. 2) Used in mentioning the attributes in HTML. | U + 0022 | Shift + ' |
' | Single Quotation mark or Apostrophe | 1) Used to denote a quotation mark in English text. 2) Denotes the omitted characters and contractions. | U + 0027 | ' |
< | Less than an open angular bracket | In logical statements and mathematics used to denote the relationship between two values, the less value is placed left to the symbol and the greater value to the right. | U + 003C | Shift + , |
, | Comma | 1) Used to separate items in sentences and lists. 2) Differentiates the numbers. 3) Used to join the clauses in the sentences. | U + 002C | , |
> | Greater than close angular brackets | In logical statements and mathematics used to denote the relationship between two values, the less value is placed to the right, and the greater value is placed to the left. | U + 003E | Shift +. |
. | Period, full stop, dot | 1)Denotes the termination of a sentence. 2)Used to represent the file extension in the file name. 3)Differentiates the parts in a URL. | U + 002E | . |
? | Question mark | Terminates the interrogative sentences. | U + 003F | Shift + / |
/ | Forward Slash and division in mathematics | 1) Dose the division in mathematics. 2)Used to denote the comments in programming languages. 3)In HTML and XML, it closes the tags. 4)Differentiates the sessions in URL and network paths. | U + 002F | / |