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Punctuation & marks — Copy and Paste

26 punctuation & marks characters for the full Unicode coverage of this block. 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

This set lists every character in the punctuation & marks range that renders on current phones and computers. Many of these are the ones people miss when they copy from an older list: the extended arrows, the relation and comparison signs, the fuller geometric and box-drawing sets, and the letterlike and technical marks that sit outside the common keyboard.

There are 26 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.

Punctuation & marks, with Unicode names

SymbolUnicode name
⋮Vertical Ellipsis
⋰Up Right Diagonal Ellipsis
⋱Down Right Diagonal Ellipsis
゠Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen
…Horizontal Ellipsis
;Fullwidth Semicolon
!Fullwidth Exclamation Mark
–En Dash
〜Wave Dash
︱Presentation Form For Vertical Em Dash
︲Presentation Form For Vertical En Dash
‑Non-Breaking Hyphen
‒Figure Dash
—Em Dash
‧Hyphenation Point
﹐Small Comma
﹔Small Semicolon
﹕Small Colon
,Fullwidth Comma
:Fullwidth Colon
?Fullwidth Question Mark
、Ideographic Comma
﹘Small Em Dash
⍠Apl Functional Symbol Quad Colon
⍪Apl Functional Symbol Comma Bar
⍮Apl Functional Symbol Semicolon Underbar

How to copy and paste punctuation & marks

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

Are these punctuation & marks free to use?Yes — every character is standard Unicode text with no ownership and no limit.
Will they work in a bio or a document?Yes. They are plain characters, so they paste into any text field.
Why do a few show as boxes?Those need a font that covers the block. Current phones and computers have one; older or stripped systems may not.
Why are so many in one list?They all belong to the same Unicode range, which is how the characters are actually organised. Use the search box to jump to the one you want.

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