Copy and Paste Symbols

How to copy a symbol

1. Find it: pick a category (Hearts, Arrows, Check marks, Currency…) or search by name or use: heart, tick, euro, degree, copyright, command.
2. Tap it. It is on your clipboard straight away, and the strip above the list shows what you copied: its official Unicode name, its code point and the code to use in HTML.
3. Paste it with Ctrl+V, ⌘V, or a long press and Paste on a phone.

Symbols you copy line up in Recently copied, saved in this browser only. Copy all copies them together, separated by spaces, which is handy for building a line like ★ ♥ ✓ for a bio or a heading. Share result makes a link to your set. On a computer, the grid takes one Tab stop: move through it with the arrow keys, copy with Enter, and press Tab to move on to the rest of the page.

Reading the name, code point and HTML code

Every symbol here is a Unicode character, and Unicode gives each one a permanent number and name. The strip shows three things, taken from the Unicode Character Database and the HTML standard:

• The name, like Black Heart Suit. Unicode names describe the shape: “black” means filled and “white” means outlined, so ♥ is the black heart and ♡ the white one, whatever colour your app uses.
• The code point, like U+2665: the character’s number, in hexadecimal. Programs and fonts use it to look the character up. In Microsoft Word you can type the hex number, such as 2665, and press Alt+X to turn it into the symbol.
• The HTML code, like ♥ or ♥: what to write in a web page’s source if you can’t paste the character itself. Only some symbols have a named code; every character works with its number.
• The Unicode version that added it. Older symbols (Unicode 1.1, published in June 1993) work almost everywhere; newer ones need a newer phone or computer.

Text symbols and emoji

Some characters can be drawn two ways: as a plain text symbol that takes the colour of the text around it, or as a colourful emoji. ❤ and ✔ are examples. Phones often choose the emoji look on their own. Where both are useful, the list includes both: the plain character, and the emoji version (marked “emoji style” in the strip). The colourful hearts in the Hearts group are emoji and look the same colour everywhere.

Will the other person see the same symbol?

If their device has a font with that character, yes: the character is the same everywhere, although its drawing changes from font to font. To keep empty boxes (“tofu”) away, every symbol here was checked against the fonts that Android phones ship, and symbols that only special math or music fonts draw were left out, so, for example, the double-struck arrows and treble clef that many phones can’t show aren’t offered. Very old devices and apps with their own limited fonts may still miss a few.

Typing symbols without this page

On Windows 11, press the Windows key and . (period) while typing, then choose Symbols in the panel that opens. On a Mac, press Fn/Globe + E, or choose Edit > Emoji & Symbols, to open the Character Viewer (as of September 2026). Both are good for symbols you use every day; for the rest, searching by name here is usually quicker.

Want faces instead of single symbols? The kaomoji page has over 330 text faces by mood. For multi-line pictures and your words in big letters, see text art.