Punctuation special characters

Typographic punctuation — em dash, en dash, ellipsis, curly quotes, guillemets, daggers and the pilcrow.

Punctuation

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Punctuation character reference

To type one of these on Windows, hold Alt and type the Alt code on the numeric keypad. On a Mac, press the shortcut shown. In HTML, paste the entity in place of the character.

Character	Name	Code point	Windows Alt code	HTML entity	Mac shortcut
—	em dash	U+2014	Alt+0151	—	Option+Shift+-
–	en dash	U+2013	Alt+0150	–	Option+-
…	ellipsis	U+2026	Alt+0133	…	Option+;
•	bullet	U+2022	Alt+0149	•	Option+8
·	middle dot interpunct	U+00B7	Alt+0183	·	Option+Shift+9
«	left guillemet angle quotation mark	U+00AB	Alt+0171	«	Option+\
»	right guillemet angle quotation mark	U+00BB	Alt+0187	»	Option+Shift+\
“	left curly double quotation mark	U+201C	Alt+0147	“	Option+[
”	right curly double quotation mark	U+201D	Alt+0148	”	Option+Shift+[
‘	left curly single quotation mark	U+2018	Alt+0145	‘	Option+]
’	right curly single quote or apostrophe	U+2019	Alt+0146	’	Option+Shift+]
†	dagger	U+2020	Alt+0134	&dagger;	Option+T
‡	double dagger	U+2021	Alt+0135	&Dagger;	Option+Shift+7
§	section	U+00A7	Alt+0167	§	Option+6
¶	pilcrow	U+00B6	Alt+0182	¶	Option+7
‰	permille	U+2030	Alt+0137	&permil;	Option+Shift+R
¡	inverted !	U+00A1	Alt+0161	¡	Option+1
¿	inverted ?	U+00BF	Alt+0191	¿	Option+Shift+/

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