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HTML Character Entities

This table is directly based on the official HTML 4.0 character entity information included in the HTML 4.01 specification.

Taken from here: http://www.intuitive.com/coolweb/entities.html.

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
 		no-break space
¡	¡	inverted exclamation mark
¢	¢	cent sign
£	£	pound sterling sign
¤	¤	general currency sign
¥	¥	yen sign
¦	¦	broken (vertical) bar
§	§	section sign
¨	¨	umlaut (dieresis)
©	©	copyright sign
ª	ª	ordinal indicator, feminine
«	«	angle quotation mark, left
¬	¬	not sign
­	­	soft hyphen
®	®	registered sign
¯	¯	macron
°	°	degree sign
±	±	plus-or-minus sign
²	²	superscript two
³	³	superscript three
´	´	acute accent
µ	µ	micro sign
¶	¶	pilcrow (paragraph sign)
·	·	middle dot
¸	¸	cedilla
¹	¹	superscript one
º	º	ordinal indicator, masculine
»	»	angle quotation mark, right
¼	¼	fraction one-quarter
½	½	fraction one-half
¾	¾	fraction three-quarters
¿	¿	inverted question mark
À	À	capital A, grave accent
Á	Á	capital A, acute accent
Â	Â	capital A, circumflex accent
Ã	Ã	capital A, tilde
Ä	Ä	capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
Å	Å	capital A, ring
Æ	Æ	capital AE diphthong (ligature)
Ç	Ç	capital C, cedilla
È	È	capital E, grave accent
É	É	capital E, acute accent
Ê	Ê	capital E, circumflex accent
Ë	Ë	capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ì	Ì	capital I, grave accent
Í	Í	capital I, acute accent
Î	Î	capital I, circumflex accent
Ï	Ï	capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ð	Ð	capital Eth, Icelandic
Ñ	Ñ	capital N, tilde
Ò	Ò	capital O, grave accent
Ó	Ó	capital O, acute accent
Ô	Ô	capital O, circumflex accent
Õ	Õ	capital O, tilde
Ö	Ö	capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
×	×	multiply sign
Ø	Ø	capital O, slash
Ù	Ù	capital U, grave accent
Ú	Ú	capital U, acute accent
Û	Û	capital U, circumflex accent
Ü	Ü	capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ý	Ý	capital Y, acute accent
Þ	Þ	capital THORN, Icelandic
ß	ß	small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
à	à	small a, grave accent
á	á	small a, acute accent
â	â	small a, circumflex accent
ã	ã	small a, tilde
ä	ä	small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
å	å	small a, ring
æ	æ	small ae diphthong (ligature)
ç	ç	small c, cedilla
è	è	small e, grave accent
é	é	small e, acute accent
ê	ê	small e, circumflex accent
ë	ë	small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
ì	ì	small i, grave accent
í	í	small i, acute accent
î	î	small i, circumflex accent
ï	ï	small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
ð	ð	small eth, Icelandic
ñ	ñ	small n, tilde
ò	ò	small o, grave accent
ó	ó	small o, acute accent
ô	ô	small o, circumflex accent
õ	õ	small o, tilde
ö	ö	small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
÷	÷	divide sign
ø	ø	small o, slash
ù	ù	small u, grave accent
ú	ú	small u, acute accent
û	û	small u, circumflex accent
ü	ü	small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
ý	ý	small y, acute accent
þ	þ	small thorn, Icelandic
ÿ	ÿ	small y, dieresis or umlaut mark

Controls and Basic Latin

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
"	"	quotation mark, apl quote
&	&	ampersand
&lt;	<	less-than sign
&gt;	>	greater-than sign

Mathematical, Greek and Symbolic characters for HTML

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
ƒ	ƒ	latin small f with hook
Α	?	greek capital letter alpha
Β	?	greek capital letter beta
Γ	G	greek capital letter gamma
Δ	?	greek capital letter delta
Ε	?	greek capital letter epsilon
Ζ	?	greek capital letter zeta
Η	?	greek capital letter eta
Θ	T	greek capital letter theta
Ι	?	greek capital letter iota
Κ	?	greek capital letter kappa
Λ	?	greek capital letter lambda
Μ	?	greek capital letter mu
Ν	?	greek capital letter nu
Ξ	?	greek capital letter xi
Ο	?	greek capital letter omicron
Π	?	greek capital letter pi
Ρ	?	greek capital letter rho
Σ	S	greek capital letter sigma
Τ	?	greek capital letter tau
Υ	?	greek capital letter upsilon
Φ	F	greek capital letter phi
Χ	?	greek capital letter chi
Ψ	?	greek capital letter psi
Ω	O	greek capital letter omega
α	a	greek small letter alpha
β	ß	greek small letter beta
γ	?	greek small letter gamma
δ	d	greek small letter delta
ε	e	greek small letter epsilon
ζ	?	greek small letter zeta
η	?	greek small letter eta
θ	?	greek small letter theta
ι	?	greek small letter iota
κ	?	greek small letter kappa
λ	?	greek small letter lambda
μ	µ	greek small letter mu
ν	?	greek small letter nu
ξ	?	greek small letter xi
ο	?	greek small letter omicron
π	p	greek small letter pi
ρ	?	greek small letter rho
ς	?	greek small letter final sigma
σ	s	greek small letter sigma
τ	t	greek small letter tau
υ	?	greek small letter upsilon
φ	f	greek small letter phi
χ	?	greek small letter chi
ψ	?	greek small letter psi
ω	?	greek small letter omega

General Punctuation

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
•	•	bullet, black small circle
…	…	horizontal ellipsis, three dot leader
′	'	prime, minutes, feet
″	?	double prime, seconds, inches
‾	?	overline, spacing overscore
⁄	/	fraction slash

Letterlike Symbols

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
™	™	trade mark sign

Arrows

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
←	?	leftwards arrow
↑	?	upwards arrow
→	?	rightwards arrow
↓	?	downwards arrow
↔	?	left right arrow

Mathematical Operators

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
∂	?	partial differential
∏	?	n-ary product, product sign
∑	?	n-ary sumation
−	-	minus sign
√	v	square root, radical sign
∞	8	infinity
∩	n	intersection, cap
∫	?	integral
≈	˜	almost equal to, asymptotic to
≠	?	not equal to
≡	=	identical to
≤	=	less-than or equal to
≥	=	greater-than or equal to

Geometric Shapes

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
◊	?	lozenge

Miscellaneous Symbols

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
♠	?	black spade suit
♣	?	black club suit, shamrock
♥	?	black heart suit, valentine
♦	?	black diamond suit

Latin Extended-A

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
Œ	Œ	latin capital ligature oe
œ	œ	latin small ligature oe
Š	Š	latin capital letter s with caron
š	š	latin small letter s with caron
Ÿ	Ÿ	latin capital letter y with diaeresis

Spacing Modifier Letters

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
ˆ	ˆ	modifier letter circumflex accent
˜	˜	small tilde

General Punctuation

Entity Encoding	Looks Like	Explanation of Symbol
–	–	en dash
—	—	em dash
‘	‘	left single quotation mark
’	'	right single quotation mark
‚	‚	single low-9 quotation mark
“	“	left double quotation mark
”	”	right double quotation mark
„	„	double low-9 quotation mark
†	†	dagger
‡	‡	double dagger
‰	‰	per mille sign