HTML Entities Reference

Searchable reference for 65+ HTML character entities. Click any row to copy name, numeric, or character.

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Char	Named entity	Numeric	Description
&	&	&	Used to start HTML entities
<	<	<	HTML tag delimiter
>	>	>	HTML tag delimiter
"	"	"	Double quote
'	'	'	Single quote / apostrophe
			Prevents line break between words
			Optional hyphenation point
—	—	—	Long dash
–	–	–	Medium dash
…	…	…	Three dots
©	©	©	Copyright symbol
®	®	®	Registered trademark
™	™	™	Trademark symbol
€	€	€	Euro currency
£	£	£	British pound sterling
¥	¥	¥	Japanese yen / Chinese yuan
¢	¢	¢	US cent
¤	¤	¤	Generic currency sign
•	•	•	Bullet point
·	·	·	Middle dot / interpunct
°	°	°	Degree sign
±	±	±	Plus or minus
×	×	×	Multiplication sign
÷	÷	÷	Division sign
¹	¹	¹	Superscript 1
²	²	²	Superscript 2 (squared)
³	³	³	Superscript 3 (cubed)
¼	¼	¼	1/4
½	½	½	1/2
¾	¾	¾	3/4
‘	‘	‘	Left single quotation mark
’	’	’	Right single quotation mark
“	“	“	Left double quotation mark
”	”	”	Right double quotation mark
«	«	«	Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
»	»	»	Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
§	§	§	Section sign
¶	¶	¶	Pilcrow / paragraph mark
†	&dagger;	†	Dagger
‡	&Dagger;	‡	Double dagger
✓	&check;	✓	Check mark
✗	&cross;	✗	Ballot X
∞	∞	∞	Infinity symbol
′	′	′	Prime (feet / minutes)
″	″	″	Double prime (inches / seconds)
←	←	←	Leftwards arrow
↑	↑	↑	Upwards arrow
→	→	→	Rightwards arrow
↓	↓	↓	Downwards arrow
↔	↔	↔	Left right arrow
∑	∑	∑	Summation / sigma
√	√	√	Radical / square root
≈	≈	≈	Almost equal to
≠	≠	≠	Not equal to
≤	≤	≤	Less than or equal to
≥	≥	≥	Greater than or equal to
µ	µ	µ	Micro sign
´	´	´	Acute accent
¯	¯	¯	Macron / overline
¸	¸	¸	Cedilla
à	à	à	à
é	é	é	é
ñ	ñ	ñ	ñ
ü	ü	ü	ü
¡	¡	¡	¡ (Spanish)
¿	¿	¿	¿ (Spanish)

When to use HTML entities

HTML entities are needed when you want to display characters that have special meaning in HTML (<, >, &) or characters not easily typed on a keyboard. Named entities like © are more readable; numeric entities like © work in any HTML version. Modern UTF-8 documents can use most characters directly, but entities remain the safest option in HTML attributes and wherever encoding is uncertain. For encoding and decoding, try HTML Encoder / Decoder.

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