HTML Special Character entities.
Character entity references in HTML 4.0 for
symbols,
mathematical symbols,
and
Greek letters.
Note: These are all recognised by the lynx text browser version 2.7
except where noted and are translated to a (relatively) usable
substitute. All entities and rendered characters shown within single
quote characters as in 'ƒ' and 'ƒ' except for some shown
within parentheses where quotes would be confusing as in (‘)
and (‘).
- -- currency symbol --
- 'ƒ' and 'ƒ'
- 'ƒ' and 'ƒ'
-- latin small f with hook = function = florin, U+0192
- -- Greek Letters (for mathematical use only, not Greek text) --
- 'Α' and 'Α'
- 'Α' and 'Α'
-- greek capital letter alpha, U+0391
- 'Β' and 'Β'
- 'Β' and 'Β'
-- greek capital letter beta, U+0392
- 'Γ' and 'Γ'
- 'Γ' and 'Γ'
-- greek capital letter gamma, U+0393
- 'Δ' and 'Δ'
- 'Δ' and 'Δ'
-- greek capital letter delta, U+0394
- 'Ε' and 'Ε'
- 'Ε' and 'Ε'
-- greek capital letter epsilon, U+0395
- 'Ζ' and 'Ζ'
- 'Ζ' and 'Ζ'
-- greek capital letter zeta, U+0396
- 'Η' and 'Η'
- 'Η' and 'Η'
-- greek capital letter eta, U+0397
- 'Θ' and 'Θ'
- 'Θ' and 'Θ'
-- greek capital letter theta, U+0398
- 'Ι' and 'Ι'
- 'Ι' and 'Ι'
-- greek capital letter iota, U+0399
- 'Κ' and 'Κ'
- 'Κ' and 'Κ'
-- greek capital letter kappa, U+039A
- 'Λ' and 'Λ'
- 'Λ' and 'Λ'
-- greek capital letter lambda, U+039B
- 'Μ' and 'Μ'
- 'Μ' and 'Μ'
-- greek capital letter mu, U+039C
- 'Ν' and 'Ν'
- 'Ν' and 'Ν'
-- greek capital letter nu, U+039D
- 'Ξ' and 'Ξ'
- 'Ξ' and 'Ξ'
-- greek capital letter xi, U+039E
- 'Ο' and 'Ο'
- 'Ο' and 'Ο'
-- greek capital letter omicron, U+039F
- 'Π' and 'Π'
- 'Π' and 'Π'
-- greek capital letter pi, U+03A0
- 'Ρ' and 'Ρ'
- 'Ρ' and 'Ρ'
-- greek capital letter rho, U+03A1
- 'Σ' and 'Σ'
- 'Σ' and 'Σ'
-- greek capital letter sigma, U+03A3
- 'Τ' and 'Τ'
- 'Τ' and 'Τ'
-- greek capital letter tau, U+03A4
- 'Υ' and 'Υ'
- 'Υ' and 'Υ'
-- greek capital letter upsilon, U+03A5
- 'Φ' and 'Φ'
- 'Φ' and 'Φ'
-- greek capital letter phi, U+03A6
- 'Χ' and 'Χ'
- 'Χ' and 'Χ'
-- greek capital letter chi, U+03A7
- 'Ψ' and 'Ψ'
- 'Ψ' and 'Ψ'
-- greek capital letter psi, U+03A8
- 'Ω' and 'Ω'
- 'Ω' and 'Ω'
-- greek capital letter omega, U+03A9
- 'α' and 'α'
- 'α' and 'α'
-- greek small letter alpha, U+03B1
- 'β' and 'β'
- 'β' and 'β'
-- greek small letter beta, U+03B2
- 'γ' and 'γ'
- 'γ' and 'γ'
-- greek small letter gamma, U+03B3
- 'δ' and 'δ'
- 'δ' and 'δ'
-- greek small letter delta, U+03B4
- 'ε' and 'ε'
- 'ε' and 'ε'
-- greek small letter epsilon, U+03B5
- 'ζ' and 'ζ'
- 'ζ' and 'ζ'
-- greek small letter zeta, U+03B6
- 'η' and 'η'
- 'η' and 'η'
-- greek small letter eta, U+03B7
- 'θ' and 'θ'
- 'θ' and 'θ'
-- greek small letter theta, U+03B8
- 'ι' and 'ι'
- 'ι' and 'ι'
-- greek small letter iota, U+03B9
- 'κ' and 'κ'
- 'κ' and 'κ'
-- greek small letter kappa, U+03BA
- 'λ' and 'λ'
- 'λ' and 'λ'
-- greek small letter lambda, U+03BB
- 'μ' and 'μ'
- 'μ' and 'μ'
-- greek small letter mu, U+03BC
- 'ν' and 'ν'
- 'ν' and 'ν'
-- greek small letter nu, U+03BD
- 'ξ' and 'ξ'
- 'ξ' and 'ξ'
-- greek small letter xi, U+03BE
- 'ο' and 'ο'
- 'ο' and 'ο'
-- greek small letter omicron, U+03BF NEW
- 'π' and 'π'
- 'π' and 'π'
-- greek small letter pi, U+03C0
- 'ρ' and 'ρ'
- 'ρ' and 'ρ'
-- greek small letter rho, U+03C1
- 'ς' and 'ς'
- 'ς' and 'ς'
-- greek small letter final sigma, U+03C2
- 'σ' and 'σ'
- 'σ' and 'σ'
-- greek small letter sigma, U+03C3
- 'τ' and 'τ'
- 'τ' and 'τ'
-- greek small letter tau, U+03C4
- 'υ' and 'υ'
- 'υ' and 'υ'
-- greek small letter upsilon, U+03C5
- 'φ' and 'φ'
- 'φ' and 'φ'
-- greek small letter phi, U+03C6
- 'χ' and 'χ'
- 'χ' and 'χ'
-- greek small letter chi, U+03C7
- 'ψ' and 'ψ'
- 'ψ' and 'ψ'
-- greek small letter psi, U+03C8
- 'ω' and 'ω'
- 'ω' and 'ω'
-- greek small letter omega, U+03C9
- 'ϑ' and 'ϑ'
- 'ϑ' and 'ϑ'
-- greek small letter theta symbol, U+03D1 NEW
- 'ϒ' and 'ϒ'
- 'ϒ' and 'ϒ'
-- greek upsilon with hook symbol, U+03D2 NEW
- 'ϖ' and 'ϖ'
- 'ϖ' and 'ϖ'
-- greek pi symbol, U+03D6
-
-- General Punctuation --
- '•' and '•'
- '•' and '•'
-- bullet = black small circle, U+2022
- '…' and '…'
- '…' and '…'
-- horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader, U+2026
- (′) and (′)
- (′) and (′)
-- prime = minutes = feet, U+2032
- (″) and (″)
- (″) and (″)
-- double prime = seconds = inches, U+2033
- (‾) and (‾)
- (‾) and (‾)
-- overline = spacing overscore, U+203E NEW
- '⁄' and '⁄'
- '⁄' and '⁄'
-- fraction slash, U+2044 NEW
-
-- Letterlike Symbols --
- '℘' and '℘'
- '℘' and '℘'
-- script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p, U+2118
- 'ℑ' and 'ℑ'
- 'ℑ' and 'ℑ'
-- blackletter capital I = imaginary part, U+2111
- 'ℜ' and 'ℜ'
- 'ℜ' and 'ℜ'
-- blackletter capital R = real part symbol, U+211C
- '™' and '™'
- '™' and '™'
-- trade mark sign, U+2122
- 'ℵ' and 'ℵ'
- 'ℵ' and 'ℵ'
-- alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal, U+2135 NEW
-
-- Arrows --
- '←' and '←'
- '←' and '←'
-- leftwards arrow, U+2190
- '↑' and '↑'
- '↑' and '↑'
-- upwards arrow, U+2191
- '→' and '→'
- '→' and '→'
-- rightwards arrow, U+2192
- '↓' and '↓'
- '↓' and '↓'
-- downwards arrow, U+2193
- '↔' and '↔'
- '↔' and '↔'
-- left right arrow, U+2194
- '↵' and '↵'
- '↵' and '↵'
-- downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return, U+21B5 NEW
- '⇐' and '⇐'
- '⇐' and '⇐'
-- leftwards double arrow, U+21D0 ('is implied by')
- '⇑' and '⇑'
- '⇑' and '⇑'
-- upwards double arrow, U+21D1
- '⇒' and '⇒'
- '⇒' and '⇒'
-- rightwards double arrow, U+21D2 ('implies')
- '⇓' and '⇓'
- '⇓' and '⇓'
-- downwards double arrow, U+21D3
- '⇔' and '⇔'
- '⇔' and '⇔'
-- left right double arrow, U+21D4
-
-- Mathematical Operators --
- '∀' and '∀'
- '∀' and '∀'
-- for all, U+2200
- '∂' and '∂'
- '∂' and '∂'
-- partial differential, U+2202
- '∃' and '∃'
- '∃' and '∃'
-- there exists, U+2203
- '∅' and '∅'
- '∅' and '∅'
-- empty set = null set = diameter, U+2205
- '∇' and '∇'
- '∇' and '∇'
-- nabla = backward difference, U+2207
- '∈' and '∈'
- '∈' and '∈'
-- element of, U+2208
- '∉' and '∉'
- '∉' and '∉'
-- not an element of, U+2209
- '∋' and '∋'
- '∋' and '∋'
-- contains as member, U+220B
- '∏' and '∏'
- '∏' and '∏'
-- n-ary product = product sign, U+220F
- '∑' and '∑'
- '∑' and '∑'
-- n-ary sumation, U+2211
- '−' and '−'
- '−' and '−'
-- minus sign, U+2212
- '∗' and '∗'
- '∗' and '∗'
-- asterisk operator, U+2217
- '√' and '√'
- '√' and '√'
-- square root = radical sign, U+221A
- '∝' and '∝'
- '∝' and '∝'
-- proportional to, U+221D
- '∞' and '∞'
- '∞' and '∞'
-- infinity, U+221E
- '∠' and '∠'
- '∠' and '∠'
-- angle, U+2220
- '∧' and '∧'
- '∧' and '∧'
-- logical and = wedge, U+2227
- '∨' and '∨'
- '∨' and '∨'
-- logical or = vee, U+2228
- '∩' and '∩'
- '∩' and '∩'
-- intersection = cap, U+2229
- '∪' and '∪'
- '∪' and '∪'
-- union = cup, U+222A
- '∫' and '∫'
- '∫' and '∫'
-- integral, U+222B
- '∴' and '∴'
- '∴' and '∴'
-- therefore, U+2234
- '∼' and '∼'
- '∼' and '∼'
-- tilde operator = varies with = similar to, U+223C
- '≅' and '≅'
- '≅' and '≅'
-- approximately equal to, U+2245
- '≈' and '≈'
- '≈' and '≈'
-- almost equal to = asymptotic to, U+2248
- '≠' and '≠'
- '≠' and '≠'
-- not equal to, U+2260
- '≡' and '≡'
- '≡' and '≡'
-- identical to, U+2261
- '≤' and '≤'
- '≤' and '≤'
-- less-than or equal to, U+2264
- '≥' and '≥'
- '≥' and '≥'
-- greater-than or equal to, U+2265
- '⊂' and '⊂'
- '⊂' and '⊂'
-- subset of, U+2282
- '⊃' and '⊃'
- '⊃' and '⊃'
-- superset of, U+2283
- '⊄' and '⊄'
- '⊄' and '⊄'
-- not a subset of, U+2284
[not recognised by lynx yet]
- '⊆' and '⊆'
- '⊆' and '⊆'
-- subset of or equal to, U+2286
- '⊇' and '⊇'
- '⊇' and '⊇'
-- superset of or equal to, U+2287
- '⊕' and '⊕'
- '⊕' and '⊕'
-- circled plus = direct sum, U+2295
- '⊗' and '⊗'
- '⊗' and '⊗'
-- circled times = vector product, U+2297
- '⊥' and '⊥'
- '⊥' and '⊥'
-- up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular, U+22A5
- '⋅' and '⋅'
- '⋅' and '⋅'
-- dot operator, U+22C5
-
-- Miscellaneous Technical --
- '⌈' and '⌈'
- '⌈' and '⌈'
-- left ceiling = apl upstile, U+2308
- '⌉' and '⌉'
- '⌉' and '⌉'
-- right ceiling, U+2309
- '⌊' and '⌊'
- '⌊' and '⌊'
-- left floor = apl downstile, U+230A
- '⌋' and '⌋'
- '⌋' and '⌋'
-- right floor, U+230B
- '〈' and '⟨'
- '〈' and '〈'
-- left-pointing angle bracket = bra, U+2329
(lang is NOT the same character as U+003C 'less than'
or U+2039 'single left-pointing angle quotation mark')
- '〉' and '⟩'
- '〉' and '〉'
-- right-pointing angle bracket = ket, U+232A
(rang is NOT the same character as U+003E 'greater than'
or U+203A 'single right-pointing angle quotation mark')
-
-- Geometric Shapes --
- '◊' and '◊'
- '◊' and '◊'
-- lozenge, U+25CA
-
-- Miscellaneous Symbols -- (black here means filled as opposed to hollow)
- '♠' and '♠'
- '♠' and '♠'
-- black spade suit, U+2660
- '♣' and '♣'
- '♣' and '♣'
-- black club suit = shamrock, U+2663
- '♥' and '♥'
- '♥' and '♥'
-- black heart suit = valentine, U+2665
- '♦' and '♦'
- '♦' and '♦'
-- black diamond suit, U+2666
-
-- Latin Extended-A --
- 'Œ' and 'Œ'
- 'Œ' and 'Œ'
-- latin capital ligature OE, U+0152
- 'œ' and 'œ'
- 'œ' and 'œ'
-- latin small ligature oe, U+0153
(ligature is a misnomer, this is a separate character in some languages)
- 'Š' and 'Š'
- 'Š' and 'Š'
-- latin capital letter S with caron, U+0160
- 'š' and 'š'
- 'š' and 'š'
-- latin small letter s with caron, U+0161
- 'Ÿ' and 'Ÿ'
- 'Ÿ' and 'Ÿ'
-- latin capital letter Y with diaeresis, U+0178
-
-- Spacing Modifier Letters --
- 'ˆ' and 'ˆ'
- 'ˆ' and 'ˆ'
-- modifier letter circumflex accent, U+02C6
- '˜' and '˜'
- '˜' and '˜'
-- small tilde, U+02DC
- -- General Punctuation --
- ' ' and ' '
- ' ' and ' '
-- en space, U+2002
- ' ' and ' '
- ' ' and ' '
-- em space, U+2003
- ' ' and ' '
- ' ' and ' '
-- thin space, U+2009
- '‌' and '‌'
- '' and ''
-- zero width non-joiner, U+200C NEW RFC 2070
- '‍' and '‍'
- '' and ''
-- zero width joiner, U+200D NEW RFC 2070
[not recognised by lynx yet]
- '‎' and '‎'
- '' and '
-- left-to-right mark, U+200E NEW RFC 2070
[not recognised by lynx yet]
- '‏' and '‏'
- '' and ''
-- right-to-left mark, U+200F NEW RFC 2070
[not recognised by lynx yet]
- '–' and '–'
- '–' and '–'
-- en dash, U+2013
- '—' and '—'
- '—' and '—'
-- em dash, U+2014
- (‘) and (‘)
- (‘) and (‘)
-- left single quotation mark, U+2018
- (’) and (’)
- (’) and (’)
-- right single quotation mark, U+2019
- (‚) and (‚)
- (‚) and (‚)
-- single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A NEW
- (“) and (“)
- (“) and (“)
-- left double quotation mark, U+201C
- (”) and (”)
- (”) and (”)
-- right double quotation mark, U+201D
- („) and („)
- („) and („)
-- double low-9 quotation mark, U+201E NEW
- '†' and '†'
- '†' and '†'
-- dagger, U+2020
- '‡' and '‡'
- '‡' and '‡'
-- double dagger, U+2021
- '‰' and '‰'
- '‰' and '‰'
-- per mille sign, U+2030
- '‹' and '‹'
- '‹' and '‹'
-- single left-pointing angle quotation mark, U+2039
(ISO proposed but not yet ISO standardized)
- '›' and '›'
- '›' and '›'
-- single right-pointing angle quotation mark, U+203A
(ISO proposed but not yet ISO standardized)
- '€' and '€'
- '€' and '€'
-- euro sign, U+20AC NEW
[not recognised by lynx yet]
The entries are in cp1252 order.
- 0x80 '€' '' -- instead, use:
- '€' or '€'
'€' and '€' -- euro sign, U+20AC NEW
[not recognised by lynx yet]
- 0x81 '' '' -- undefined
- 0x82 (‚) () -- instead, use:
- (‚) or (‚)
(‚) and (‚) -- single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A NEW
- 0x83 'ƒ' '' -- instead, use:
- 'ƒ' or 'ƒ'
'ƒ' and 'ƒ' -- latin small f with hook = function = florin,
U+0192
- 0x84 („) () -- instead, use:
- („) or („)
(„) and („) -- double low-9 quotation mark, U+201E NEW
- 0x85 '…' '
' -- instead, use:
- '…' or '…'
'…' and '…' -- horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader,
U+2026
- 0x86 '†' '' -- instead, use:
- '†' or '†'
'†' and '†' -- dagger, U+2020
- 0x87 '‡' '' -- instead, use:
- '‡' or '‡'
'‡' and '‡' -- double dagger, U+2021
- 0x88 'ˆ' '' -- instead, use:
- 'ˆ' or 'ˆ'
'ˆ' and 'ˆ' -- modifier letter circumflex accent, U+02C6
- 0x89 '‰' '' -- instead, use:
- '‰' or '‰'
'‰' and '‰' -- per mille sign, U+2030
- 0x8A 'Š' '' -- instead, use:
- 'Š' or 'Š'
'Š' and 'Š' -- latin capital letter S with caron, U+0160
- 0x8B '‹' '' -- instead, use: '<', '<' -- for now.
- '‹' or '‹'
'‹' and '‹' -- single left-pointing angle quotation mark,
U+2039
(ISO proposed but not yet ISO standardized)
- 0x8C 'Œ' '' -- instead, use:
- 'Œ' or 'Œ'
'Œ' and 'Œ' -- latin capital ligature OE, U+0152
- 0x8D '' '' -- undefined
- 0x8E 'Ž' '' -- instead, use:
- 'Ž' or 'Ž'
'Ž' and 'Ž' -- latin capital letter Z with caron, U+017D
- 0x8F '' '' -- undefined
- 0x90 '' '' -- undefined
- 0x91 (‘) () -- instead, use:
- (‘) or (‘)
(‘) and (‘) -- left single quotation mark, U+2018
- 0x92 (’) () -- instead, use:
- (’) or (’)
(’) and (’) -- right single quotation mark, U+2019
- 0x93 (“) () -- instead, use:
- (“) or (“)
(“) and (“) -- left double quotation mark, U+201C
- 0x94 (”) () -- instead, use:
- (”) or (”)
(”) and (”) -- right double quotation mark, U+201D
- 0x95 '•' '' -- instead, use:
- '•' or '•'
'•' and '•' -- bullet = black small circle, U+2022
- 0x96 '–' '' -- instead, use:
- '–' or '–'
'–' and '–' -- en dash, U+2013
- 0x97 '—' '' -- instead, use:
- '—' or '—'
'—' and '—' -- em dash, U+2014
- 0x98 '˜' '' -- instead, use:
- '˜' or '˜'
'˜' and '˜' -- small tilde, U+02DC
- 0x99 '™' '' -- instead, use:
- '™' or '™'
'™' and '™' -- trade mark sign, U+2122
- 0x9A 'š' '' -- instead, use:
- 'š' or 'š'
'š' and 'š' -- latin small letter s with caron, U+0161
- 0x9B '›' '' -- instead, use '>', '>' -- for now.
- '›' or '›'
'›' and '›' -- single right-pointing angle quotation
mark, U+203A (ISO proposed but not yet ISO standardized)
- 0x9C 'œ' '' -- instead, use:
- 'œ' or 'œ'
'œ' and 'œ' -- latin small ligature oe, U+0153
(ligature is a misnomer, this is a separate character in some languages)
- 0x9D '' '' -- undefined
- 0x9E 'ž' '' -- instead, use:
- 'ž' or 'ž'
'ž' and 'ž' -- latin small letter Z with caron, U+017E
- 0x9F 'Ÿ' '' -- instead, use:
- 'Ÿ' and 'Ÿ'
'Ÿ' and 'Ÿ' -- latin capital letter Y with diaeresis, U+0178
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