Keyboards cover letters, digits and a few punctuation marks. Everything else, from → and ✓ to €, ½, ♪ and ﷽, normally means memorising codes or digging through a character map. This page gathers 476 commonly wanted symbols in 13 categories, with a search box that understands plain English names such as heart, arrow or check.
Clicking a symbol does not copy it straight away. It adds the symbol to the Compose box at the top, where you can also type ordinary text, so you can build a whole line such as ★ Best seller ★ or Price: ₹499 → ₹399 and copy it in one go. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you compose is uploaded.
Symbols, emoji and kaomoji
Every symbol here is a Unicode character, the same kind of character as the letter A, which is why it can be pasted into almost any text field. Many come from older blocks such as Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols, and they take on the style and colour of the surrounding text. Others are emoji, such as 💖, 🔥 or ✅, which phones draw as small colour pictures. A handful sit in between: ❤ and ☀ can appear as a plain symbol in one app and as a colour emoji in another, depending on the device.
The Japanese and kaomoji category adds multi-character faces like (◕‿◕) and ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ along with single katakana marks such as ツ that people use as decorations. The Arabic decorative category collects ornaments used in Arabic and Islamic typography, including ornate parentheses ﴿ ﴾, the ۞ rub el hizb, the bismillah ligature ﷽ and the tatweel stroke ـ.
What people build with symbols
Listings, prices and menus
Shop listings and social posts often use ✓ for features, → for steps and currency signs such as €, ₺, ₦ or ₿ that a local keyboard may not offer. Combining them in the Compose box keeps the formatting consistent across a whole description.
Maths and science notes
Signs like ±, ≠, ≤, ∞, √, ∑, π and ° are needed in study notes, chat answers and spreadsheet labels where an equation editor is not available.
Profiles and captions
Stars, hearts, flowers and brackets turn a bio line or a story caption into something more personal, for example ✿ coffee · books · travel ✿. They also make neat dividers between sections of a long post.
Reactions in chat
Kaomoji such as (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ express a mood in plain text, and they work in places where emoji pickers are missing, like terminals, some games and older forums.
Searching and composing
Each symbol has an English name, such as black star, right double arrow or indian rupee. The search matches every word you type against the name and the category, so heart finds all the hearts and right arrow keeps only the arrows with right in their name. Pasting a symbol itself into the search box finds it too. The Category menu limits the grid to one group: Arrows, Stars, Hearts, Math, Currency, Brackets, Music, Weather and nature, Checks and signs, Japanese and kaomoji, Arabic decorative, Shapes and objects or Punctuation.
Hovering over a symbol shows its name. Clicking it appends it to the end of the Compose box, which is an ordinary text area: you can type between symbols, move the cursor, delete characters or paste in other text. The Copy button copies the entire box, and Clear empties it. Nothing is saved, so copy your work before closing the page.
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- Type a word such as heart, arrow or check in the Search symbols box, or pick a Category.
- Click the symbols you want; each one is added to the end of the Compose box.
- Type any extra text directly in the Compose box to build the full line.
- Press Copy to copy the whole box, then paste it into your post, document or profile.
Display and compatibility notes
- How a symbol looks depends on the fonts of the device showing it. Rare symbols may appear as empty boxes on older phones and some desktop apps.
- Text-style symbols may switch to colour emoji in some apps, and the other way round.
- In apps that use Markdown, such as Discord and Reddit, a backslash is treated as an escape, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can lose its arm or turn partly italic. Check the preview before sending.
- Search uses English names only, and clicking always adds to the end of the box rather than at the cursor position.