Symbols
Hearts, signs and commonly used symbols
Subgroups
All “Symbols” emoji
About Symbols
Symbols holds 264 entries that are not pictures of things: arrows, signs, shapes, numbers, letters, religious marks and zodiac signs. Many came from older character sets and were later treated as emoji, which is why this group feels different from the rest.
What you will find in this group
The group is a mix: arrows and geometric shapes, warning and information signs, letters and digits rendered as keycaps, plus the zodiac and religious marks.
Some entries are true emoji with a color drawing; others are plain text characters that simply have an emoji presentation. Both are listed here with their code points.
How these emoji are used
Arrows and shapes are mostly structural. They mark direction, order and emphasis inside a message, and they are common in step-by-step notes and layouts.
Sign entries act as compact instructions. A warning sign, a no-entry mark or a recycling symbol communicates a rule faster than a sentence, and reads the same in any language.
Numbers, letters and keycaps
Keycap entries render a digit or a symbol inside a key. They are used for rankings, options and quick lists, where a bare digit would be easy to miss.
Letters rendered as squares are sometimes used to spell short words. That use is decorative, and screen readers may read them one character at a time.
Cross-platform notes
This group varies the most in appearance. Some platforms draw full-color pictures, others render plain text glyphs, and the same code point can look completely different.
If a symbol carries the whole meaning of a line — a warning, a prohibition — add the word as well so the message survives a font change.
How to copy and paste these emoji
All 264 symbols in Symbols can be copied straight from the cards on this page. Emoji copy and paste here is plain text, so the character you copy is the character that lands in Slack, WhatsApp, Notion, Word or X.
On a phone the system keyboard is often the fastest route, but a browser tab is easier when you want a specific variant — skin tone, gender or hair color — that the keyboard buries three taps deep.
Frequently Asked Questions
- QHow many emoji are in Symbols?
- There are 264 entries on EmojiAll, covering arrows, audio and video marks, emotion symbols, gender signs, geometric shapes, hearts, keycaps, math, religion, signs and the zodiac.
- QAre all of them really emoji?
- Not strictly. Some are ordinary characters with an emoji presentation. EmojiAll lists them together because people use and search for them in the same way.
- QWhy do some symbols look like plain text?
- Because the platform renders them as text glyphs instead of color artwork. The code point and the meaning are unchanged.
- QWhich symbols should I avoid for important messages?
- Anything whose meaning rests entirely on the drawing. Write the rule in words and let the symbol support it.