Special Characters to Copy and Paste
Click any of these special characters to copy it to your clipboard. The page also shows the Unicode number, the HTML code and the Alt code for typing it on a keyboard.
Source: Unicode Consortium – The Unicode Standard (code points and blocks: Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Currency Symbols, Box Drawing, Dingbats). Updated: .
How it is calculated
With one click a special character such as €, ©, → or ★ lands on your clipboard and can be pasted anywhere. The page also shows how to type the character on a keyboard.
How to enter special characters
- Windows: hold Alt and type the four-digit number on the numeric keypad, for example Alt+0128 for €. The number appears under the character you click (Windows-1252, codes 0128–0255).
- Linux: Ctrl+Shift+U, then the hex code of the Unicode number (such as 20AC) and Enter.
- Mac: enable the “Unicode Hex Input” source, then hold Option and type the hex code.
- Web pages: with the HTML code, for example
€, the character shows up even with unusual file encodings.
Good to know
Whether a character is displayed depends on the font: if it is missing, a box appears. All characters come from the Unicode standard. Search understands the character itself, the Unicode number (U+20AC or 20AC) and the decimal number. The page stores and sends nothing.
Search, languages and Mac shortcuts
Search also finds characters by the name of their HTML entity (euro, copy, rarr) and by the name of a category – "arrows" shows every arrow. Besides check marks, fractions and superscripts, "Category" has separate groups with the accented letters for German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Turkish and the Scandinavian languages.
For every character you see the HTML notations (named, decimal, hexadecimal). A Mac shortcut is shown only where one exists and applies to the US keyboard layout: ⌥ is the Option key, ⇧ is Shift – other layouts place some characters differently. "Recently used" lasts only while the page is open.
For colourful pictographs use the emoji copy and paste tool; codes 0 to 255 including control characters are in the ASCII table.
Frequently asked questions
How do I copy a special character?
Click the character: it is copied to the clipboard at once and can be pasted with Ctrl+V. Collect several characters in the field below and copy them together.
How do you type special characters on a keyboard?
On Windows with Alt and the number on the numeric keypad (Alt+0128 gives €), on Linux with Ctrl+Shift+U and the hex code, on a Mac with Unicode Hex Input.
What is an Alt code?
A number you type on the numeric keypad while holding Alt to produce a character. With a leading zero (Alt+0233) the Windows character table applies: é.
Why does my device show a box instead of the character?
The font in use does not contain the character. The character itself was copied correctly; in another font or app it appears normally.
Sources and legal basis
- Unicode Consortium – The Unicode Standard (code points and blocks: Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Currency Symbols, Box Drawing, Dingbats)
- Microsoft – Windows-1252 (code page for Alt codes 0128–0255)
- WHATWG HTML Standard – named character references and numeric character references
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