Here you will find various types of punctuation sign and their Alt codes, Html codes, names, and descriptions. You can copy and paste punctuation symbols in any documents, blogs, web, etc. Click on the symbol to copy.
| Symbol | Description | Alt Code | HTML Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| ! | Exclamation Mark | 33 | ! |
| ‼ | Double Exclamation | 19 | ‼ |
| ¡ | Inverted Exclamation Mark | 173 | ¡ |
| ? | Question Mark | 63 | ? |
| ¿ | Inverted Question Mark | 168 | ¿ |
| ( | Left Parenthesis | 40 | ( |
| ) | Right Parenthesis | 41 | ) |
| [ | Left Square Bracket | 91 | [ |
| ] | Right Square Bracket | 93 | ] |
| { | Left Curly Bracket | 123 | { |
| } | Right Curly Bracket | 125 | } |
| Symbol | Description | Alt Code | HTML Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| ∟ | Tab Marker | 28 | ∟ |
| § | Paragraph | 21 | § |
| ¶ | Carriage Return | 20 | ¶ |
| † | Dagger / Obelos | 0134 | † |
| ‡ | Double Dagger / Diesis | 0135 | ‡ |
| " | Quotation Mark | 34 | " |
| ‹ | Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | 0139 | ‹ |
| › | Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | 0155 | › |
| ‘ | Curly Single Open Quote | 0145 | ‘ |
| ’ | Curly Single Close Quote | 0146 | ’ |
| “ | Left Double Quotation Mark | 0147 | “ |
| ” | Right Double Quotation Mark | 0148 | ” |
| « | Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | 174 | « |
| » | Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | 175 | » |
| ‘ | Left Single Quotation Mark | 0130 | ‘ |
| „ | Double Low-9 Quotation Mark | 0132 | „ |
| Symbol | Description | Alt Code | HTML Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| : | Colon | 58 | : |
| ; | Semicolon | 59 | ; |
| , | Comma | 44 | , |
| . | Full Stop | 46 | . |
| … | Horizontal Ellipsis | 0133 | … |
| _ | Underscore | 95 | _ |
| ¯ | Overscore | 0175 | ¯ |
| | | Bar | 124 | | |
| ~ | Tilde | 126 | ~ |
| ¨ | Diaeresis | 0168 | ¨ |
| - | Dash or Hyphen | 45 | - |
| — | Em Dash | 0151 | — |
| * | Asterisk | 42 | * |
| / | Slash | 47 | / |
| \ | Back Slash | 92 | \ |
| & | Ampersand | 38 | & |
| ' | Apostraphe | 39 | ' |
| @ | Commercial At Symbol | 64 | @ |
| ` | Angled Apostraphe | 96 | ` |
Make sure the numeric keypad is activated on the keyboard. Place the cursor where the punctuation symbol is required and then press and hold the Alt key and type the required alt code value from the above list and release the alt key.
Examples of Alt Keyboard Sequences
Alt + 19 = ‼Alt + 21 = §
Alt + 34 = "
Alt + 124 = |
Note: Alt Codes works on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Almost all alt code shortcuts work on Microsoft Word but some alt codes may not work on Excel and PowerPoint documents.
If you want to know how to insert special characters & symbols using Windows Alt codes. Please check out how to use Alt codes and also check the keyboard special characters list.