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† (English symbol name dagger or obelus)

dagger (English name symbol)
obelus (English name symbol)

Derives from the obelus, ⟨⸓⟩. Originally shaped like a dagger, it is now sometimes identical in shape to a Latin cross.

(typography) Used to indicate a (second) footnote.


used when omitting a section in quoted text

(typography) May be, or form part of, a leader: a series of dots used as a visual aid to connect items in lists, such as chapter headers to page numbers in a table of contents.


(printing) Abbreviation of trigesimo-secundo., book and paper size, (3.75"-5" x 2.5"-3.125")


(printing) Abbreviation of duodecimo, a book size using duodecimo-sized pages.


ـ

(typography) A carrier for vowel diacritic, used to display the diacritic without a base letter.


(typography) Introduces items in a list.


(typography) The Arabic star, used like an asterisk


★ (English symbol name star or five-pointed star)

star (English name symbol)
five-pointed star (English name symbol)

Likely from Egyptian 𓇼 (“determinative for stars and constellations”) (image: dwA). However, around the same time in Mesopotamia, non-cuneiform depictions of a star with eight- or six-points are attested; compare Sumerian 𒀭, a cuneiform character descended from such drawings.


(typography) Alternative form of • (“introduces items in a list”)


(computing, typography) An explicit space, as opposed to a tab character, or nothing at all.


4º

(printing) Abbreviation of quarto, a standard size range for books, corresponding to the paper size.


6º

(printing) Abbreviation of sexto, a book size using duodecimo-sized pages.


8º

(printing) Abbreviation of octavo, a book size using octavo-sized pages.


ulx

(typography) Alternative spelling of μlx (“microlux”) (from typographic substitution of lower case Greek letter "μ" with lower case Latin letter "u")


(typography) an unfilled bullet; used to introduce items in a list.


(typography) A carrier for combining diacritic marks, used to display the diacritic without a base letter.

commonly used to display vowel diacritics for Arabic


(printing) Abbreviation of sextodecimo, a book size using sextodecimo-sized pages.


(printing) Abbreviation of octodecimo, a book size using octodecimo-sized pages.


(printing) Abbreviation of vicesimo-quarto, a book size using vicesimo-quarto-sized pages.


(printing) Abbreviation of quadragesimo-octavo, a book size using quadragesimo-octavo-sized pages.


(printing) Abbreviation of sexagesimo-quarto, a book size using sexagesimo-quarto-sized pages.


(typography) May be, or form part of, a leader: a series of dots used as a visual aid to connect items in lists, such as chapter headers to page numbers in a table of contents.


ⱦ

(typography) A manual-typewriter substitute for t-like phonetic symbols such as IPA ⟨θ⟩.


(typography) the florette or rosette, a common fleuron


d̸

(typography) A manual-typewriter substitute for d-like phonetic symbols such as IPA ⟨ð⟩.


b̸

(typography) A manual-typewriter substitute for b-like phonetic symbols such as IPA ⟨β⟩.


g̸

(typography) A manual-typewriter substitute for g-like phonetic symbols such as IPA ⟨ɣ⟩.


p̸

(typography) A manual-typewriter substitute for p-like phonetic symbols such as IPA ⟨ɸ⟩.


(typography) Introduces items in a list.


Hamburgevons

(typography) A word of no meaning but containing all essential forms of the Latin alphabet, used for assessing the design and appearance of a typeface.


(computing, typography) is a non-breaking space and is a space character that prevents an automatic line break.

(computing, typography) Used as a graphics for control codes.