Symbols

Symbols are often encoded in Unicode formats to provide a standard glyph for use as a font. See ISO-8859-1 for symbols below 256 (U+100) and special characters for sample values above 256. See also Named character references for HTML5 supported codes.

Categories

The series range is shown, however, many symbols are already present in fonts outside the ranges shown here.

• Currency symbols - alternate glyphs are not supported, except by font variation. U+20A0..U+20CF codes symbols not found embedded in other locations. Small font variants are between U+FE50..U+FE6F
• Technical symbols - generally control codes U+2400..U+243F, U+2300..U+23FF
• Letterlike symbols - U+2100..U+214F
• Geometrical symbols - U+2300..U+23FF, U+2600..U+26FF, U+2B00..U+2BFF
  • Box drawing U+2500..U+257F
  • blocks U+2580..U+259F design to make crude graphics
  • Geometric shapes U+25A0..U+25FF, U+1F780..U+1F7FF
• Mathematical alphabets - U+1D400..U+1D7FF - Helps solve the problem where many math characters look similar to regular letters.
  • Mathematical symbols - U+1EE00..U+1EEFF, U+27C0..U+27EF, U+2980..U+29FF
  • Mathematical operators - U+2200..U+22FF, U+2A00..U+2AFF
  • Invisible mathematical operators - needed to provide semantics and automatic interpretation.
• Miscellaneous symbols and dingbats - often well established symbols. U+2600..U+26FF, U+1F300..U+1F5FF, and U+1F900..U+1F9FF
  • dingbats U+2700..U+27BF ornamental U+1F650–U+1F67F
  • weather symbols U+2600..U+2603, U+26C4..U+26CB, U+1F321..U+1F32C, U+2614 umbrella with rain drops
  • mapping symbols U+26E8..U+26FF (overlaps with dictionary) and U+1F680..U+1F6FF
  • traffic signs U+26CC..U+26CD, U+26CF..U+26E1
  • dictionary symbols U+26E8..U+26FF
  • recycling symbols
  • game symbols
    • Mahjong Tiles: U+1F000..U+1F02F
    • Domino Tiles: U+1F030..U+1F09F
    • Playing Cards: U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF
    • Chess pieces: U+02654..U+0265F
  • animal symbols - used by Asian cell phone carriers. U+1F400..U+1F42C
  • cultural symbols - mostly landmarks U+1F5FB..U+1F5FF
  • hand symbols - hands in various positions. U+1F446..U+1F450, U+1F58E..U+1F5A3, U+1F918..U+1F91E, U+270A..U+270D
  • music notation U+02669..U+0266F, U+1D100..U+1D1E8
  • poetry and lyrics metrics - U+23D1..U+23D9
  • dental notation - U+23BE..U+23CC
  • electrical notation - U+238D..U+2394, U+23DA earth ground and U+23DB fuse
  • Alchemist Symbols: U+1F700..U+1F77F
• Numerals
• Superscript and subscript symbols - U+2070..U+209F
• Pictographic symbols
• Emoticons - "picture character," or pictograph U+1F600..U+1F64F
• Enclosed and square symbols - symbols around characters

Special forms

• Combining marks may also be used for symbols. especially U+20D0..U+20FF
• Dingbats and optical character recognition characters are different from all other characters in the standard, in that they are encoded based primarily on their precise appearance. U+2440..U+245F

For more information

• http://unicode-table.com/en/ great Unicode map for finding any character.
• http://unicode-table.com/en/blocks locate symbols by blocks as defined above. It also contains the many language alphabets.
• http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/ch22.pdf contains version 9 symbols
• interesting examples emoji3
• Symbola fonts are a set of fonts created from SVG. They are primarily used for maps
• Toxaris page covering mapping symbol fonts to Unicode equivalent. His Word add-in can use this mapping.