Character Entities for XHTML

Description

Included is a table displaying the entire set of XHTML character entities. This table was derived from the set of character entities delivered with XHTML 1.0. Performance of this table varies as according to OS, browser, and fonts chosen. The description includes the glyph description, Unicode hex value, ISO or IETF source (when available), and performance codes. Some detailed notes as well as a description of the performance codes found at the end of each character entity description is located in the document Notes.

XML-compatible ISO Latin 1 Character Entity Set for XHTML

name	number	glyph	description
nbsp	160	`\|` `\|`	no-break space = non-breaking space, U+00A0 ISOnum [123]
iexcl	161	¡	inverted exclamation mark, U+00A1 ISOnum [123]
cent	162	¢	cent sign, U+00A2 ISOnum [123]
pound	163	£	pound sign, U+00A3 ISOnum [123]
curren	164	¤	currency sign, U+00A4 ISOnum [123]
yen	165	¥	yen sign = yuan sign, U+00A5 ISOnum [123]
brvbar	166	¦	broken bar = broken vertical bar, U+00A6 ISOnum [123]
sect	167	§	section sign, U+00A7 ISOnum [123]
uml	168	¨	diaeresis = spacing diaeresis, U+00A8 ISOdia [123]
copy	169	©	copyright sign, U+00A9 ISOnum [123]
ordf	170	ª	feminine ordinal indicator, U+00AA ISOnum [123]
laquo	171	«	left-pointing double angle quotation mark = left pointing guillemet, U+00AB ISOnum [123]
not	172	¬	not sign, U+00AC ISOnum [123]
shy	173	`\|``\|`	soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen, U+00AD ISOnum [?23]
reg	174	®	registered sign = registered trade mark sign, U+00AE ISOnum [123]
macr	175	¯	macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar, U+00AF ISOdia [123]
deg	176	°	degree sign, U+00B0 ISOnum [123]
plusmn	177	±	plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign, U+00B1 ISOnum [123]
sup2	178	²	superscript two = superscript digit two = squared, U+00B2 ISOnum [123]
sup3	179	³	superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed, U+00B3 ISOnum [123]
acute	180	´	acute accent = spacing acute, U+00B4 ISOdia [123]
micro	181	µ	micro sign, U+00B5 ISOnum [123]
para	182	¶	pilcrow sign = paragraph sign, U+00B6 ISOnum [123]
middot	183	·	middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot, U+00B7 ISOnum [123]
cedil	184	¸	cedilla = spacing cedilla, U+00B8 ISOdia [123]
sup1	185	¹	superscript one = superscript digit one, U+00B9 ISOnum [123]
ordm	186	º	masculine ordinal indicator, U+00BA ISOnum [123]
raquo	187	»	right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet, U+00BB ISOnum [123]
frac14	188	¼	vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter, U+00BC ISOnum [123]
frac12	189	½	vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half, U+00BD ISOnum [123]
frac34	190	¾	vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters, U+00BE ISOnum [123]
iquest	191	¿	inverted question mark = turned question mark, U+00BF ISOnum [123]
Agrave	192	À	latin capital A with grave = latin capital A grave, U+00C0 ISOlat1 [123]
Aacute	193	Á	latin capital A with acute, U+00C1 ISOlat1 [123]
Acirc	194	Â	latin capital A with circumflex, U+00C2 ISOlat1 [123]
Atilde	195	Ã	latin capital A with tilde, U+00C3 ISOlat1 [123]
Auml	196	Ä	latin capital A with diaeresis, U+00C4 ISOlat1 [123]
Aring	197	Å	latin capital A with ring above = latin capital A ring, U+00C5 ISOlat1 [123]
AElig	198	Æ	latin capital AE = latin capital ligature AE, U+00C6 ISOlat1 [123]
Ccedil	199	Ç	latin capital C with cedilla, U+00C7 ISOlat1 [123]
Egrave	200	È	latin capital E with grave, U+00C8 ISOlat1 [123]
Eacute	201	É	latin capital E with acute, U+00C9 ISOlat1 [123]
Ecirc	202	Ê	latin capital E with circumflex, U+00CA ISOlat1 [123]
Euml	203	Ë	latin capital E with diaeresis, U+00CB ISOlat1 [123]
Igrave	204	Ì	latin capital I with grave, U+00CC ISOlat1 [123]
Iacute	205	Í	latin capital I with acute, U+00CD ISOlat1 [123]

name	number	glyph	description
Icirc	206	Î	latin capital I with circumflex, U+00CE ISOlat1 [123]
Iuml	207	Ï	latin capital I with diaeresis, U+00CF ISOlat1 [123]
ETH	208	Ð	latin capital ETH, U+00D0 ISOlat1 [123]
Ntilde	209	Ñ	latin capital N with tilde, U+00D1 ISOlat1 [123]
Ograve	210	Ò	latin capital O with grave, U+00D2 ISOlat1 [123]
Oacute	211	Ó	latin capital O with acute, U+00D3 ISOlat1 [123]
Ocirc	212	Ô	latin capital O with circumflex, U+00D4 ISOlat1 [123]
Otilde	213	Õ	latin capital O with tilde, U+00D5 ISOlat1 [123]
Ouml	214	Ö	latin capital O with diaeresis, U+00D6 ISOlat1 [123]
times	215	×	multiplication sign, U+00D7 ISOnum [123]
Oslash	216	Ø	latin capital O with stroke = latin capital O slash, U+00D8 ISOlat1 [123]
Ugrave	217	Ù	latin capital U with grave, U+00D9 ISOlat1 [123]
Uacute	218	Ú	latin capital U with acute, U+00DA ISOlat1 [123]
Ucirc	219	Û	latin capital U with circumflex, U+00DB ISOlat1 [123]
Uuml	220	Ü	latin capital U with diaeresis, U+00DC ISOlat1 [123]
Yacute	221	Ý	latin capital Y with acute, U+00DD ISOlat1 [123]
THORN	222	Þ	latin capital THORN, U+00DE ISOlat1 [123]
szlig	223	ß	latin small sharp s = ess-zed, U+00DF ISOlat1 [123]
agrave	224	à	latin small a with grave = latin small a grave, U+00E0 ISOlat1 [123]
aacute	225	á	latin small a with acute, U+00E1 ISOlat1 [123]
acirc	226	â	latin small a with circumflex, U+00E2 ISOlat1 [123]
atilde	227	ã	latin small a with tilde, U+00E3 ISOlat1 [123]
auml	228	ä	latin small a with diaeresis, U+00E4 ISOlat1 [123]
aring	229	å	latin small a with ring above = latin small a ring, U+00E5 ISOlat1 [123]
aelig	230	æ	latin small ae = latin small ligature ae, U+00E6 ISOlat1 [123]
ccedil	231	ç	latin small c with cedilla, U+00E7 ISOlat1 [123]
egrave	232	è	latin small e with grave, U+00E8 ISOlat1 [123]
eacute	233	é	latin small e with acute, U+00E9 ISOlat1 [123]
ecirc	234	ê	latin small e with circumflex, U+00EA ISOlat1 [123]
euml	235	ë	latin small e with diaeresis, U+00EB ISOlat1 [123]
igrave	236	ì	latin small i with grave, U+00EC ISOlat1 [123]
iacute	237	í	latin small i with acute, U+00ED ISOlat1 [123]
icirc	238	î	latin small i with circumflex, U+00EE ISOlat1 [123]
iuml	239	ï	latin small i with diaeresis, U+00EF ISOlat1 [123]
eth	240	ð	latin small eth, U+00F0 ISOlat1 [123]
ntilde	241	ñ	latin small n with tilde, U+00F1 ISOlat1 [123]
ograve	242	ò	latin small o with grave, U+00F2 ISOlat1 [123]
oacute	243	ó	latin small o with acute, U+00F3 ISOlat1 [123]
ocirc	244	ô	latin small o with circumflex, U+00F4 ISOlat1 [123]
otilde	245	õ	latin small o with tilde, U+00F5 ISOlat1 [123]
ouml	246	ö	latin small o with diaeresis, U+00F6 ISOlat1 [123]
divide	247	÷	division sign, U+00F7 ISOnum [123]
oslash	248	ø	latin small o with stroke, = latin small o slash, U+00F8 ISOlat1 [123]
ugrave	249	ù	latin small u with grave, U+00F9 ISOlat1 [123]
uacute	250	ú	latin small u with acute, U+00FA ISOlat1 [123]
ucirc	251	û	latin small u with circumflex, U+00FB ISOlat1 [123]
uuml	252	ü	latin small u with diaeresis, U+00FC ISOlat1 [123]
yacute	253	ý	latin small y with acute, U+00FD ISOlat1 [123]
thorn	254	þ	latin small thorn with, U+00FE ISOlat1 [123]
yuml	255	ÿ	latin small y with diaeresis, U+00FF ISOlat1 [123]

XML-compatible ISO Special Character Entity Set for XHTML

name	number	glyph	description
lt	60	<	less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum [123]
gt	62	>	greater-than sign, U+003E ISOnum [123]
amp	38	&	ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum [123]
apos	39	'	apostrophe, U+0027 ISOnum [123]
quot	34	"	quotation mark = APL quote, U+0022 ISOnum [123]
OElig	338	Œ	latin capital ligature OE, U+0152 ISOlat2 [123]
oelig	339	œ	latin small ligature oe, U+0153 ISOlat2 [123]
Scaron	352	Š	latin capital letter S with caron, U+0160 ISOlat2 [1c3]
scaron	353	š	latin small letter s with caron, U+0161 ISOlat2 [1c3]
Yuml	376	Ÿ	latin capital letter Y with diaeresis, U+0178 ISOlat2 [13]
circ	710	ˆ	modifier letter circumflex accent, U+02C6 ISOpub [13]
tilde	732	˜	small tilde, U+02DC ISOdia [13]
ensp	8194	`\|` `\|`	en space, U+2002 ISOpub [d3]
emsp	8195	`\|` `\|`	em space, U+2003 ISOpub [d3]
thinsp	8201	`\|` `\|`	thin space, U+2009 ISOpub [d3]

name	number	glyph	description
ndash	8211	–	en dash, U+2013 ISOpub [123]
mdash	8212	—	em dash, U+2014 ISOpub [123]
lsquo	8216	‘	left single quotation mark, U+2018 ISOnum [123]
rsquo	8217	’	right single quotation mark, U+2019 ISOnum [123]
sbquo	8218	‚	single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A NEW [123]
ldquo	8220	“	left double quotation mark, U+201C ISOnum [123]
rdquo	8221	”	right double quotation mark, U+201D ISOnum [123]
bdquo	8222	„	double low-9 quotation mark, U+201E NEW [123]
dagger	8224	†	dagger, U+2020 ISOpub [a23]
Dagger	8225	‡	double dagger, U+2021 ISOpub [a23]
permil	8240	‰	per mille sign, U+2030 ISOtech [123]
lsaquo	8249	‹	single left-pointing angle quotation mark, U+2039 ISO proposed [123]
rsaquo	8250	›	single right-pointing angle quotation mark, U+203A ISO proposed [123]
euro	8364	€	euro sign, U+20AC NEW [123]

XML-Compatible ISO Math, Greek and Symbolic Character Entity Set for XHTML

name	number	glyph	description
fnof	402	ƒ	latin small f with hook = function = florin, U+0192 ISOtech [b23]
Alpha	913	Α	greek capital letter alpha, U+0391 [23]
Beta	914	Β	greek capital letter beta, U+0392 [23]
Gamma	915	Γ	greek capital letter gamma, U+0393 ISOgrk3 [23]
Delta	916	Δ	greek capital letter delta, U+0394 ISOgrk3 [23]
Epsilon	917	Ε	greek capital letter epsilon, U+0395 [23]
Zeta	918	Ζ	greek capital letter zeta, U+0396 [23]
Eta	919	Η	greek capital letter eta, U+0397 [23]
Theta	920	Θ	greek capital letter theta, U+0398 ISOgrk3 [23]
Iota	921	Ι	greek capital letter iota, U+0399 [23]
Kappa	922	Κ	greek capital letter kappa, U+039A [23]
Lambda	923	Λ	greek capital letter lambda, U+039B ISOgrk3 [23]
Mu	924	Μ	greek capital letter mu, U+039C [23]
Nu	925	Ν	greek capital letter nu, U+039D [23]
Xi	926	Ξ	greek capital letter xi, U+039E ISOgrk3 [23]
Omicron	927	Ο	greek capital letter omicron, U+039F [23]
Pi	928	Π	greek capital letter pi, U+03A0 ISOgrk3 [23]
Rho	929	Ρ	greek capital letter rho, U+03A1 [23]
Sigma	931	Σ	greek capital letter sigma, U+03A3 ISOgrk3 [23]
Tau	932	Τ	greek capital letter tau, U+03A4 [23]
Upsilon	933	Υ	greek capital letter upsilon, U+03A5 ISOgrk3 [23]
Phi	934	Φ	greek capital letter phi, U+03A6 ISOgrk3 [23]
Chi	935	Χ	greek capital letter chi, U+03A7 [23]
Psi	936	Ψ	greek capital letter psi, U+03A8 ISOgrk3 [23]
Omega	937	Ω	greek capital letter omega, U+03A9 ISOgrk3 [23]
alpha	945	α	greek small letter alpha, U+03B1 ISOgrk3 [23]
beta	946	β	greek small letter beta, U+03B2 ISOgrk3 [23]
gamma	947	γ	greek small letter gamma, U+03B3 ISOgrk3 [23]
delta	948	δ	greek small letter delta, U+03B4 ISOgrk3 [23]
epsilon	949	ε	greek small letter epsilon, U+03B5 ISOgrk3 [23]
zeta	950	ζ	greek small letter zeta, U+03B6 ISOgrk3 [23]
eta	951	η	greek small letter eta, U+03B7 ISOgrk3 [23]
theta	952	θ	greek small letter theta, U+03B8 ISOgrk3 [23]
iota	953	ι	greek small letter iota, U+03B9 ISOgrk3 [23]
kappa	954	κ	greek small letter kappa, U+03BA ISOgrk3 [23]
lambda	955	λ	greek small letter lambda, U+03BB ISOgrk3 [23]
mu	956	μ	greek small letter mu, U+03BC ISOgrk3 [23]
nu	957	ν	greek small letter nu, U+03BD ISOgrk3 [23]
xi	958	ξ	greek small letter xi, U+03BE ISOgrk3 [23]
omicron	959	ο	greek small letter omicron, U+03BF NEW [23]
pi	960	π	greek small letter pi, U+03C0 ISOgrk3 [123]
rho	961	ρ	greek small letter rho, U+03C1 ISOgrk3 [23]
sigmaf	962	ς	greek small letter final sigma, U+03C2 ISOgrk3 [3]
sigma	963	σ	greek small letter sigma, U+03C3 ISOgrk3 [23]
tau	964	τ	greek small letter tau, U+03C4 ISOgrk3 [23]
upsilon	965	υ	greek small letter upsilon, U+03C5 ISOgrk3 [23]
phi	966	φ	greek small letter phi, U+03C6 ISOgrk3 [23]
chi	967	χ	greek small letter chi, U+03C7 ISOgrk3 [23]
psi	968	ψ	greek small letter psi, U+03C8 ISOgrk3 [23]
omega	969	ω	greek small letter omega, U+03C9 ISOgrk3 [23]
thetasym	977	ϑ	greek small letter theta symbol, U+03D1 NEW [13]
upsih	978	ϒ	greek upsilon with hook symbol, U+03D2 NEW [13]
piv	982	ϖ	greek pi symbol, U+03D6 ISOgrk3 [13]
bull	8226	•	bullet = black small circle, U+2022 ISOpub [123]
hellip	8230	…	horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader, U+2026 ISOpub [123]
prime	8242	′	prime = minutes = feet, U+2032 ISOtech [123]
Prime	8243	″	double prime = seconds = inches, U+2033 ISOtech [123]
oline	8254	‾	overline = spacing overscore, U+203E NEW [123]
frasl	8260	⁄	fraction slash, U+2044 NEW [123]
weierp	8472	℘	script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p, U+2118 ISOamso [123]
image	8465	ℑ	blackletter capital I = imaginary part, U+2111 ISOamso [1e3]
real	8476	ℜ	blackletter capital R = real part symbol, U+211C ISOamso [1e3]

name	number	glyph	description
trade	8482	™	trade mark sign, U+2122 ISOnum [23]
alefsym	8501	ℵ	alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal, U+2135 NEW [1f3]
larr	8592	←	leftwards arrow, U+2190 ISOnum [123]
uarr	8593	↑	upwards arrow, U+2191 ISOnum [123]
rarr	8594	→	rightwards arrow, U+2192 ISOnum [123]
darr	8595	↓	downwards arrow, U+2193 ISOnum [123]
harr	8596	↔	left right arrow, U+2194 ISOamsa [123]
crarr	8629	↵	downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return, U+21B5 NEW [123]
lArr	8656	⇐	leftwards double arrow, U+21D0 ISOtech [123]
uArr	8657	⇑	upwards double arrow, U+21D1 ISOamsa [123]
rArr	8658	⇒	rightwards double arrow, U+21D2 ISOtech [123]
dArr	8659	⇓	downwards double arrow, U+21D3 ISOamsa [123]
hArr	8660	⇔	left right double arrow, U+21D4 ISOamsa [123]
forall	8704	∀	for all, U+2200 ISOtech [123]
part	8706	∂	partial differential, U+2202 ISOtech [123]
exist	8707	∃	there exists, U+2203 ISOtech [123]
empty	8709	∅	empty set = null set = diameter, U+2205 ISOamso [123]
nabla	8711	∇	nabla = backward difference, U+2207 ISOtech [123]
isin	8712	∈	element of, U+2208 ISOtech [123]
notin	8713	∉	not an element of, U+2209 ISOtech [123]
ni	8715	∋	contains as member, U+220B ISOtech [123]
prod	8719	∏	n-ary product = product sign, U+220F ISOamsb [123]
sum	8721	∑	n-ary sumation, U+2211 ISOamsb [123]
minus	8722	−	minus sign, U+2212 ISOtech [123]
lowast	8727	∗	asterisk operator, U+2217 ISOtech [123]
radic	8730	√	square root = radical sign, U+221A ISOtech [123]
prop	8733	∝	proportional to, U+221D ISOtech [123]
infin	8734	∞	infinity, U+221E ISOtech [123]
ang	8736	∠	angle, U+2220 ISOamso [123]
and	8743	∧	logical and = wedge, U+2227 ISOtech [123]
or	8744	∨	logical or = vee, U+2228 ISOtech [123]
cap	8745	∩	intersection = cap, U+2229 ISOtech [123]
cup	8746	∪	union = cup, U+222A ISOtech [123]
int	8747	∫	integral, U+222B ISOtech [123]
there4	8756	∴	therefore, U+2234 ISOtech [123]
sim	8764	∼	tilde operator = varies with = similar to, U+223C ISOtech [123]
cong	8773	≅	approximately equal to, U+2245 ISOtech [123]
asymp	8776	≈	almost equal to = asymptotic to, U+2248 ISOamsr [123]
ne	8800	≠	not equal to, U+2260 ISOtech [123]
equiv	8801	≡	identical to, U+2261 ISOtech [123]
le	8804	≤	less-than or equal to, U+2264 ISOtech [123]
ge	8805	≥	greater-than or equal to, U+2265 ISOtech [123]
sub	8834	⊂	subset of, U+2282 ISOtech [123]
sup	8835	⊃	superset of, U+2283 ISOtech [123]
nsub	8836	⊄	not a subset of, U+2284 ISOamsn [123]
sube	8838	⊆	subset of or equal to, U+2286 ISOtech [123]
supe	8839	⊇	superset of or equal to, U+2287 ISOtech [123]
oplus	8853	⊕	circled plus = direct sum, U+2295 ISOamsb [123]
otimes	8855	⊗	circled times = vector product, U+2297 ISOamsb [123]
perp	8869	⊥	up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular, U+22A5 ISOtech [123]
sdot	8901	⋅	dot operator, U+22C5 ISOamsb [123]
lceil	8968	⌈	left ceiling = apl upstile, U+2308 ISOamsc [123]
rceil	8969	⌉	right ceiling, U+2309 ISOamsc [123]
lfloor	8970	⌊	left floor = apl downstile, U+230A ISOamsc [123]
rfloor	8971	⌋	right floor, U+230B ISOamsc [123]
lang	9001	〈	left-pointing angle bracket = bra, U+2329 ISOtech [123]
rang	9002	〉	right-pointing angle bracket = ket, U+232A ISOtech [123]
loz	9674	◊	lozenge, U+25CA ISOpub [123]
spades	9824	♠	black spade suit, U+2660 ISOpub [123]
clubs	9827	♣	black club suit = shamrock, U+2663 ISOpub [123]
hearts	9829	♥	black heart suit = valentine, U+2665 ISOpub [123]
diams	9830	♦	black diamond suit, U+2666 ISOpub [123]

Notes

Any measure of whether or not a specific character displays correctly is imperfect at best, and depends upon hardware platform, operating system, operating system version, choice of browser, and user font settings. The indications in this table are as described below, but should not mean to imply support for a particular character entity under other configurations. If a character has been noted to display correctly by the author, its code is noted at the end of the description area within square brackets. Characters that either do not display at all or display as '?' are missing a numeric code. Alphabetic codes are used for specific instances. The codes are below:

[1] displays correctly on: SuSE Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.12), Netscape 6.1, on Intel Gateway Solo 5300
[2] displays correctly on: OS X 10.1.3, Netscape 6.2.2, on Macintosh iBook
[3] displays correctly on: Windows 2000 Version 5.0, Netscape 6.2.3, on a generic PC
[a] The dagger and double dagger on [1] only displays a plus sign and two plus signs, respectively. These are not dagger characters, though one might give them points for trying.
[b] The florin character on [1] is displayed as a small 'f'
[c] The 'S' and 's' with caron characters on [2] is a bit strange, displaying different characters even as the window is scrolled. The uppercase 'S' with caron works okay usually, but the lowercase is sometimes displayed as an uppercase, sometimes as a 'y' with an acute, sometimes an aleph, sometimes a broken bar, sometimes a Weierstrass 'P'. Go figure.
[d] The various space characters on [1] and [2] are all displayed as a normal space.
[e] The characters on [2] are all displayed as a Weierstrass 'P'.
[f] The character on [2] is all displayed as a Latin capital 'O' with slash (Ø).
[?] It's not clear if the character is displayed correctly, or the character isn't a display character in all contexts. For example, the zero-width joiner and non-joiner characters display as special symbols on [1], as '?' on [2], and invisibly on [3]. Since they're not used in Western scripts, what should happen on a browser set as such is unclear.