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Legal, marks & dingbats — Copy and Paste

13 legal, marks & dingbats characters for trademark, copyright and editorial marks. Tap any character to copy it — including the plain-text versions that survive any font.

Copy any character

Tap or click a character and it goes straight to your clipboard. These are Unicode text characters, not images, so they paste into any text field.

What these symbols are for

These are the marks that make a page look properly set: trademark and copyright notices, the section sign for legal clauses, and the dagger marks used for footnotes in print.

There are 13 characters in this set. The grid above is the fastest way to take one — tap it and it is on your clipboard. The table below gives the official Unicode name of each character, which is the name used by every database, font tool and search box.

Legal, marks & dingbats, with Unicode names

SymbolUnicode nameUsed for
†Daggerthe first footnote mark, with ‡ for the second
‡Double Dagger
•Bulletthe standard list bullet in plain text
※Reference Mark
∙Bullet Operator
◘Inverse Bullet
◦White Bullet
☎Black Telephone
☏White Telephone
⁃Hyphen Bullet
‣Triangular Bullet
℗Sound Recording Copyright
⌕Telephone Recorder

How to copy and paste legal, marks & dingbats

Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:

Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.

Where these characters work, and where they do not

Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.

PlaceWorks?What to expect
Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captionsYesSymbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions
Discord display name and messagesYesAlmost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters
WhatsApp, Telegram, SignalYesFull support for emoji and symbols
Word, Google Docs, Excel, SheetsYesFine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs
Most online games (usernames)SometimesMany titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first
SMSYes, butAn emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment

The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between ™ and ®?™ is an unregistered trade mark, ® a registered one. Using ® for an unregistered mark is legally risky in many countries.
What is the section sign used for?Numbered sections in legal and academic writing, and occasionally as a decorative divider.
What are † and ‡ for?Footnotes and endnotes. † is the first mark, ‡ the second, then they double up.

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