Secret characters on the keyboard. Symbols on the keyboard using the Alt key. Entering special characters using the keyboard

Keyboard secrets: how to write with characters that are not on the keyboard

Sometimes a situation arises when you need to use a special character in some text, but there is no key with such a character on the keyboard. How to be? There are several ways. If you print to text editor Microsoft Word 2007, then everything is simple: just select the "Symbol" item on the "Insert" tab. In the drop-down list, select the desired symbol or click on "Other symbols ...". In the dialog box that opens, find the required symbol and press the "Insert" key. You can also insert by double-clicking on the selected symbol.

But what if you work in a simple Notepad editor? In this case, you need to do so. Press and hold the Alt key and use the numeric keypad to type the special character code. The number keys you need are usually on the right side of the keyboard. desktop computer, and you can activate them by pressing the NumLock button.

If you are working with a laptop, then these keys are the same as some keys for letters. They can be "enabled" by a special combination, as a rule, Fn + key, which says NumLock or NumLk.

Here are the codes for some of the symbols.

● Step by step:

1.Turn on the NumLock button (on the right side of the keyboard)

2. Hold Alt.

3. And at the same time holding down the alt key We type the combination on the digital block.

4. Press Alt.

5. Admiring the icon.

● On laptops without a Num Pad, go to Start\u003e Programs\u003e Accessories\u003e Accessibility\u003e Screen keyboard... Use virtual buttons.

● You can also use transliteration for the character set.

● The ALT key also allows you to type standard characters such as dog or bullets.

● Do not skip zeros in the code, zero must also be pressed.

● Hold down the ALT key + the combination of numbers specified in the code. You need to hold the ALT key without releasing it until you have typed all the digits of the code. Then the symbol will appear.

More symbols:

Copyright

Heart

® Reserved

℠ Service mark

℃ Celsius

℉ Fahrenheit

No. License plate

℗ Copyright records

℞ Pharmaceutical symbol

℧ Inverted Ohm

☀ Sun

☂ Umbrella

☃ Snowman

☄ Comet

★ Star (filled)

☆ Star (outlines)

☇ Lightning

☉ Sun (outline)

☊ Ascending node

☋ Descending node

☌ Pairing

☍ Opposition

☎ Phone (filled)

☏ Telephone (outline) 9743]

☐ Empty square

☑ Checkbox

☒ Square with a cross X

☓ Andrew's Cross

☚ Finger pointing to the left (filled)

☛ Finger pointing to the right (filled)

☜ Finger pointing to the left (outline)

☝ Thumb pointing up (outline)

☞ Finger pointing to the right (outline)

☟ Downward pointing finger (outline)

☠ Skull and bones

☡ Warning sign

☢ Sign of radiation

☣ Biohazard sign

☤ Caduceus (rod of Hermes)

☦ Eastern Christian cross

☧ Christogram

☨ Patriarchal Cross

☩ Greek cross

☪ Moon and Star

☫ Farsi Symbol

☬ Adi Shakti

☭ Hammer and sickle

☮ Peace Sign

☯ Yin and Yang

☰ Trigram sky

☱ Trigram lake

☲ Trigram fire

☳ Thunderstorm trigram

☴ Trigram wind

☵ Trigram water

☶ Trigram mountain

☷ Trigram earth

☸ Dharma wheel

☹ Sad smiley

☺ Cheerful smiley

☻ Black smile

☽ Waxing moon

☾ Falling moon

☿ Mercury

♀ Venus (sign of a woman)

♂ Mars (male sign)

♃ Jupiter

♄ Saturn

♆ Neptune

♇ Pluto

♊ Gemini

♏ Scorpio

♐ Sagittarius

♑ Capricorn

♒ Aquarius

♔ White king

♕ White Queen

♖ White rook

♗ White elephant

♘ White horse

♙ White pawn

♚ Black king

♛ Black Queen

♜ Black Rook

♝ Black elephant

♞ Black horse

♟ Black pawn

♠ Black lance

♤ Pica (outline)

Heart (painted over) or heart

♦ Tambourine (filled)

♧ Clubs (outline)

♨ Geyser

♩ Musical quarter note

♪ Musical eighth note

♫ Connected two notes

♬ Two notes connected by a double bar

♭ Flat

♮ Natural scale sound

✁ Cut from the top

✂ Cut here

✃ Cut from the bottom

✄ Scissors

✆ Public phone

✇ Cassette

✈ Airport / plane

✉ Envelope / email

✌ Victory Sign

✍ Signature

✎ Diagonal pencil

✏ Pencil

✐ Diagonal pencil pointing up

✓ Check mark

✔ Bold check mark

✕ Multiplication sign / X

✖ Bold multiplication sign / X

✗ Slanted X

✘ Bold oblique X

✝ Roman cross

✞ Roman Cross 3D

✟ Latin cross (outline)

✠ Maltese cross

✡ Star of David

❛ Quotation mark

❜ Quotation mark (inverted)

❝ Double quote mark

❞ Double quote mark (inverted)

™ Trademark ○ \u003d 777

The tick symbol is usually placed in a Word document for greater clarity, so that the document looks professional. For example, you decided to make a to-do list in Word, and immediately mark the items that you have already completed. In this guide, you will learn how in several ways to learn how to insert a checkmark (in a square and without) in the Word.

How to put a tick in the Word in a box using "Symbols"

We will perform this process in three steps.

Step 1. Go to the "Insert" tab - then "Symbol" - "Other symbols ..."

Step 2. In the window that appears, set the font "Wingdings 2" and find the icons we need in all this variety of symbols: a check mark or a check mark in a square.

Step 3. I hope your cursor is in the right place in the document. Press the "Insert" button and the sign you need will appear in the document.

How to make a check mark in Word using hotkeys

Step 1. Let's go back to the "Symbols" window, where you must have the "Wingdings 2" font selected, otherwise how do you insert a check mark in the Word?

Step 2.Find the icon you need and this time turn your attention to the "Sign Code". For example, for a check mark, this code is 80.

See that the characters you need are located under the code from 79 to 88

Step 3. Close the "Symbols" window, put the cursor in the desired place word document... Now press and hold the Alt key on the numeric keypad and type the character code (for example, Alt + 80). After you release the Alt key, you will have a character that you would have typed.

As you can see, ticking the boxes in Word is not at all difficult.

Let's imagine a trivial situation: you need to enter a special character in some text, but there is no key with such a character on the keyboard.

How to be?

If you are working in a text editor , then there are no problems:

- select menu Insert -\u003e Symbol ...;

- in the opened dialog box Symbol select the desired symbol;

- press the key Paste (you can insert by double-clicking the left button on the selected symbol).

And if you are working in a "non-advanced" text editor, for example, in Notepad (by the way, the program Notebook it is very convenient to use it as a notebook - for current notes and notes. Since it "weighs" less than Word, it loads faster and works faster in it)?

How to be?

There is a way out, and it is always at hand!

- press and hold the key Alt;

- on the additional numeric keypad (the numeric block is located on the right side of the keyboard), enter the character code;

- when you release the key Alt, the desired character will be inserted into the text.

Note. There must be a numeric keypad (if not, turn it on by pressing NumLock).

Some of the symbols are listed below:

0123 (or 123 )	{
0124 (or 124 )	|
0125 (or 125 )	}
0126 (or 126 )	~
0130	‚ bottom single quote
0132	„ Opening foot
0133	… Ellipsis
0134	† Cross ( dagger)
0135	‡ Double cross ( double dagger)
0136	€ Euro symbol
0137	‰ Ppm symbol
0139	‹ Left "corner"
0143	Џ
0145	‘ Upper single quotation mark (inverted apostrophe)
0146	’ Apostrophe
0147	“ Closing foot
0148	” English closing foot
0149	Center bold point
0150	– En dash (minus)
0151	- Dash
0153	™ Trade mark symbol
0155	› Right corner
0159	џ
0166	¦
0167	§ Paragraph
0169	© Copyright symbol
0171	« Opening "Christmas tree"
0172	¬
0174	®
0176	° Degree symbol
0177	±
0181	µ
0182	¶
0183	Center point
0185	№
0187	» Closing herringbone

Knowing these codes (or at least having a printed sheet with these codes "at hand") allows you to increase the speed of working on the keyboard even in Word"e.

Every computer user, especially actively using social networks, wondered: what is special symbols and where to find them on the keyboard? The answer to this question is not difficult. The thing is that only frequently used symbols are displayed on the keyboard: letters, punctuation marks, arithmetic operations.

But there are many other symbols in the world. And to use them, you need to know some concepts. Such characters are called special characters. The difference is that they are more funny than really useful.

How to enter special characters from the keyboard?

To begin with, let's analyze the simplest and most understandable input of special characters that are already located on the device keyboard. To do this, hold down the Shift key and select the desired symbol.

But do not forget that for convenience, the symbols are separated by keyboard layouts. Therefore, pay attention to the location of the sign relative to the main one.

Using special characters when creating passwords

Many users wondered how to create a strong password. To do this, you do not need to create huge sets of different letters, numbers and punctuation marks, just use an unusual icon. So how do you use the special characters on your keyboard for your password?

To use a special character when entering a password, you must enable NumLock. After that, hold down the Alt key and "+", then type the required set of characters and get the desired sign. But in the password itself, it will not be registered as a special character, but will be written in the encoding required for this.

Using Unicode on Windows 10 Keyboard

To use special characters on windows keyboard 10, you need to go to the taskbar and request a table in the search bar. And then run this application.

In the table that opens, you can select a font. To copy a symbol, click on it twice and click "Copy" in the bottom line. You can also select the character set language.

Entering special characters using the keyboard

The most practical way to type characters is to combine the Alt key and the desired Unicode. Special characters for alt keyboard will be discussed in the table below.

But before you know about them, you need to understand the principle of entering these characters. To enter the character we need, press the Alt key, then press "+" on the right side of the keyboard and type a digital command in which the desired character is encrypted.

Special character tables for text description

Now, actually, let's look at how some special characters look. Many of them are used infrequently.

Name	Symbolism	View	Description
	160		blank space
iexcl	161	¡	exclamation mark upside down
cent	162	¢	cent
pound	163	£	gBP
euro	0128	€	euro
	8591	₪	shekel
curren	164	¤	currency unit
yen	165		yen or yuan
	166	¦	dashed vertical bar
sect	167	§	paragraph
uml	168	¨	diaeresis
copy	169		copyright mark
ordf	170	ª	ordinal (feminine)
	186	º	ordinal (masculine)
	171	«	opening quote
	187	»	closing quotation mark
not	172	¬	negation
	173		place of possible transfer
	176	°	degree
permil		‰	ppm
acute	180	´	accent mark
micro	181	µ	micro
para	182	¶	paragraph symbol
middot	183	·	dot
cedil	184	¸	cedilla
sup1	185	¹	superscript (one)
	175		the longitude sign above the vowel is placed on top
iquest	191	¿	question mark upside down
	174	®	registered trade mark

Special symbols table - arrows

And these special characters are perfect for any kind of scheme. This table is worth having at hand.

Punctuation table

Well, you can't do without these signs when writing articles. They are familiar to everyone, without exception.

Name	Symbolism	View	Description
bull	8226	.	small black circle
hellip	8230	…	ellipsis
prime	8242	′	single stroke - minutes and feet
	8243	″	double prime - seconds and inches
	8254	‾	top underline
frasl	8260	⁄	slash slanted to the right
Basic punctuation
ndash	8211	-	dash
mdash	8212	—	em dash
lsquo	8216	‘	left single quote
	8217	’	right single quote
	8218	‚	single quote (bottom)
	8220	“	double quote (tilt to the left)
	8221	”	double quote (slant to the right)
	8222	„	double quote (bottom)

Arithmetic Signs Table

Such signs are just a godsend for a mathematician. None can be recorded without their help.

Name	Symbolism	View	Description
times	215	×	multiplication sign
divide	247	÷	division sign
frasl	8260	⁄	fractional bar
minus	8722	−	minus sign
il	60	<	less sign
gt	62	>	more sign
le	8804	≤	less than or equal to
ge	8805	≥	more or equal
	8776	≈	asymptotically equal
ne	8800	≠	inequality
equiv	8801	≡	identically coincides with
plusmn	177	±	plus or minus
frac14	188	¼	one quarter
frac12	189	½	a half
frac34	190	¾	three quarters
sup1	185	¹	superscript unit
	178	²	two superscript (square)
	179	³	superscript three (cube)
	8730	√	square root (radical)
	8734	∞	infinity sign
sum	8721	∑	summation sign
	8719	∏	work mark
part	8706	∂	partial differential
int	8747	∫	integral
forall	8704	∀	for all
exist	8707	∃	exists
empty	8709	∅	empty set; diameter
	8711	∇	nabla
isin	8712	∈	belongs
notin	8713	∉	do not belong
ni	8715	∋	contains
lowast	8727	∗	asterisk operator
prop	8733	∝	proportionately
ang	8736	∠	angle
and	8743	∧	logical AND
or	8744	∨	logical OR
cap	8745	∩	crossing
cup	8746	∪	union
there4	8756	∴	consequently
sim	8764		similarity sign - "changes from" - tilde sign
	8773	≅	approximately equal to
sub	8834	⊂	this is a subset
sup	8835	⊃	this is a superset
nsub	8836	⊄	is not a subset of
sube	8838	⊆	is a subset of or equal to
	8839	⊇	is a superset or equal to
	8853	⊕	plus in a circle
otimes	8855	⊗	multiplication sign in a circle
	8869	⊥	orthogonal, perpendicular
sdot	8901	⋅	dot operator
fnot	402	ƒ	function sign

Table of Latin, Greek and Hebrew letters

Not many, of course, will use these signs when working with a computer. However, knowing about them will not hurt your overall development.

Name	Symbolism	View	Description
Letters
Agrave	192	À	capital A with grave accent
	193	Á	And with acute accent
Acirc	194	Â	A with circumflex (diacritic mark over a vowel)
	195	Ã	And with a tilde
Auml	196	Ä	And with three (a sign above a vowel for pronouncing it separately from the previous vowel)
	197	Å	And with the top circle
AElig	198	Æ	aE characters
Ccedil	199	Ç	C with cedilla
Egrave	200	È	E with grave
	201	É	E acute
	202	Ê	E with circumflex (diacritic over a vowel)
	203	Ë	E with three
Igrave	204	Ì	I grave
	205	Í	I acute
Icirc	206	Î	I with circumflex
Iuml	207	Ï	I with three
ETH	208	Ð	eTH symbols
Ntilde	209	Ñ	N with tilde
Ograve	210	Ò	O grave
	211	Ó	O with acute accent
Ocirc	212	Ô	O with circumflex
Otilde	213	Õ	O with tilde
Ouml	214	Ö	O with three
Oslash	216	Ø	O with a stroke
Ugrave	217	Ù	Grave u
	218	Ú	U acute
	219	Û	U with circumflex
Uuml	220	Ü	U with three
Yacute	221	Ý	Y with acute accent
THORN	222	Þ	THORN
agrave	224	à	lowercase A grave
	225	á	And with acute accent
acirc	226	â	And with circumflex
atilde	227	ã	And with a tilde
auml	228	ä	And with three
aring	229	å	And with the top circle
aelig	230	æ	Ae
ccedil	231	ç	And with a cedilla
egrave	232	è	E with grave
	233	é	E acute
	234	ê	E with circumflex
euml	235	ë	E with three
igrave	236	ì	I grave
	237	í	I acute
icirc	238	î	I with circumflex
iuml	239	ï	I with three
eth	240	ð	eth symbols
ntilde	241	ñ	N with tilde
ograve	242	ò	O grave
	243	ó	O with acute accent
ocirc	244	ô	O with circumflex
otilde	245	õ	I with tilde
ouml	246	ö	I with three
oslash	248	ø	O with a stroke
ugrave	249	ù	Grave u
	250	ú	U acute
	251	û	U with circumflex
uuml	252	ü	U with three
yacute	253	ý	Y with sharp impact
thorn	254	þ	thorn
yuml	255	ÿ	Y with three
Greek alphabet letters
	913	Α	greek capital letter alpha
	914	Β	beta
	915	Γ	greek capital letter gamma
	916	Δ	delta
	917	Ε	greek capital letter epsilon
	918	Ζ	zeta
	919		greek capital letter this
	920	Θ	theta
	921	Ι	greek capital letter iota
	922	Κ	kappa
	923	Λ	greek capital letter lambda
	924	Μ	mu
	925		greek capital letter nude
	926	Ξ	xi
	927	Ο	greek capital letter omicron
	928	Π	pi
	929		greek capital letter ro
	931	Σ	sigma
	932		greek capital letter tau
	933	Υ	upsilon
	934		greek capital letter phi
	935	Χ	hee
	936		greek capital letter psi
	937	Ω	omega
	945	α	greek small letter alpha
	946	β	beta
	947	γ	greek small letter gamma
	948	δ	delta
	949	ε	greek small letter epsilon
	950	ζ	zeta
	951		greek small letter eta
	952	θ	theta
	953	ι	greek small letter iota
	954	κ	kappa
	955	λ	greek small letter lambda
	956	μ	mu
	957		greek small letter nude
	958	ξ	xi
	959	ο	greek small letter omicron
	960	π	pi
	961		greek small letter ro
	962	ς	sigma (final)
	963	σ	greek small letter sigma
	964	τ	tau
	965	υ	greek small letter upsilon
	966	φ	fi
	967		greek small letter chi
	968	ψ	psi
	969	ω	greek small letter omega
Hebrew letters
	1488	א	aleph
	1489	ב	bat
	1490	ג	gimel
	1491	ד	daled
	1492	ה	shay
	1493	ו	waw
	1494	ז	zain
	1495	ח	hat
	1496	ט	thet
	1497	י	yod
	1498	ך	cafe spotlight
	1499	כ	cafe
	1500	ל	lamed
	1501	ם	ma'am soffit
	1502	מ	ma'am
	1503	ן	nun soffit
	1504	נ	nun
	1505	ס	sameh
	1506	ע	ain
	1507	ף	pay-soffit
	1508	פ	pei
	1509	ץ	tzadik-soffit
	1510	צ	tzaddik
	1511	ק	kuf
	1512	ר	raish
	1513	ש	tire
	1514	ת	tav

Additional symbol table

Here are some more useful signs. Perhaps they will come in handy for you too.

Name	Symbolism	View	Description
	9824	♠	suit sign "spades"
	9827	♣	sign of the suit "clubs"
	9829		suit sign "hearts"
	9830	♦	sign of the suit "tambourines"
	9674	◊	rhombus
	9675	○	a circle
	9679	●	black circle
	9668	◄	triangle to the left
	9660	▼	black triangle down
	9658		black triangle to the right
	9650	▲	black triangle up
	9632	■	black square
	9642	▪	black square
	9643	▫	square
	9792	♀	feminine
	9794		masculinity
	34	"	double quote
amp	38	&	ampersand
lt	60	<	less than sign
gt	62	>	greater than sign
circ	710	ˆ	circumflex symbol
tilde	732	˜	tilde
trade	8482	™	trademark mark

Finally

There are many symbols in the world that computer users need to use for their own purposes. It is impossible to know all of them. After all, humanity during its centuries-old history has created more than a million different codes and other types of information encoded in the image, but there are tables of special characters that are available to all users.

These signs have a huge field of application, so many will have to face them. Entering special characters from the keyboard is not difficult. The main thing is to be able to use the capabilities of your device, and this will allow you to use various special characters for your own purposes.

There are times when you need to use characters that are not on the keyboard. For example, all sorts of crosses, stars and hearts in statuses or nicknames in in social networks, such as VKontakte or Facebook. This article describes in detail how to type such characters.

And so, just below you will see two ways, the first is a set of such characters on a computer using codes with the Alt key, and the second is a dialing method on an Android tablet or smartphone, which is also necessary. And just below you will learn how to type the ruble sign on the keyboard.

A set of symbols and characters on the keyboard.

There is such a wonderful key - "Alt". It is often used, for example, when using keyboard shortcuts or other programs, such as. But today we need it for other cases, namely, for a set of various symbols and signs that are not on the keyboard. Below you will see a list of codes and opposite symbols. You just need to hold down the Alt key and on the right side of the keyboard type the code that corresponds to the character you need.

If these buttons do not work, then you need to turn on NumPad, for this you need to press the Num Lock key, otherwise the NumPad buttons will work for you as a control.

As you can see, everything is simple.

Alt key character codes. So, how do you enter characters on the keyboard with the Alt key? Everything is much simpler than it sounds. In order to enter a character, you need to hold down the Alt key and type numbers on the NumPad.

After that you can omit the Alt key, but the main question arises: what numbers should you enter to get the desired character? This is where the list of Alt character codes, which is below, will come to your aid. The list is considerable, here you can find various symbols from hearts and crosses to zodiac signs.

Alt character table:

How to type the ruble symbol on the keyboard?

If you need a ruble sign, then you probably already noticed that it is not found anywhere on the keys, let's figure out how to enter the ruble sign.

In Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and Windows 7, you can also type the ruble sign using the Alt key. To do this, press and hold down the right Alt + 8 key... If in Windows 7 it is not possible to type the ruble sign, then the update may not have been installed, just update the system via Windows Update.

Also, you can just copy the ruble sign here -?.

Symbols of the signs of the zodiac.

You can simply select these symbols of the zodiac signs, copy (Ctrl + C) and paste (Ctrl + V) into the desired place, even from a computer, even from a mobile device.

Twins.

Scorpio.

Sagittarius.

Capricorn.

Aquarius.

A set of characters on an Android device.

If you are using an Android tablet or smartphone, it is even easier to enter characters here, because you do not need to use any codes. The default keyboard (usually google keyboard), of course good and convenient, but there is a more universal analogue of "Hackers Keyboard". This keyboard contains many characters that are entered without codes. This keyboard is completely free and is in the Play Market.

Now you can type symbols that are not on the keyboard, thanks to the Alt symbol table, you also learned how to type the ruble sign and enter symbols on Android device... That's all, if you have any questions or have something to add, then please in the comments.