🔣 Keyboard symbols and their names

⌨️ Keyboard Symbols on the Top Row

From left to right:

Symbol	Common Name in CS	Other Names
`~`	Tilde
`	Backtick	Grave Accent, back quote
`!`	Exclamation Mark	Exclamation Point, Ecphoneme
`@`	At Sign	at, at symbol
`#`	Pound Sign	Number Sign, Hash, or Octothorpe
`$`	Dollar
`%`	Percent
`^`	Caret
`&`	Ampersand	And symbol
`*`	Asterisk	Star
`(`	Open Parenthesis	left parenthesis
`)`	Close Parenthesis	right parenthesis
`( )`	Parentheses	round brackets
`_`	Underscore
`–`	Minus	Hyphen, dash, minus sign
`+`	Plus	Plus sign
`=`	Assignment operator	Equal, Assignment

⌨️ Keyboard Symbols on the Right Side of the Keyboard

From top to bottom:

Symbol	Common Name in CS	Other Names
`{`	Open Brace	Open Curly Bracket
`}`	Close Brace	Close Curly Bracket
`{ }`	Curly Brackets	Braces
`[`	Open Square Bracket
`]`	Close Square Bracket
`[ ]`	Square Brackets	Brackets
`\|`	Vertical Pipe	Pipe
`\`	Back Slash	backward slash
`:`	Colon
`;`	Semicolon
`"`	double quotes	Quotation Mark
`""`	Double Quotation Marks
`'`	single quote	apostrophe, prime
`''`	Single Quotation Marks
`,`	Comma
`<`	Less Than	left angle bracket
`>`	Greater Than	right angle bracket
`.`	Period	decimal, dot, full stop
`/`	Slash (Forward Slash)	Fraction slash, Solidus, Virgule
`?`	Question Mark	Eroteme

💻 Other Symbols

Symbol	Common Name in CS	Other Names
`...`	Ellipsis	“dot dot dot”
`>>>`	a Python prompt	(triple) angled brackets, chevron
`≠`	“not equal” sign, inequality Written as `!=` in Python
`≈`	“approximately” symbol

Whenever are talk about indentation, we are referring to the offset that is created using either the Tab key (on the right side of the keyboard) or to the sequence of spaces created using the spacebar (the longest key on the bottom of the keyboard).

Acknowledgement

Developed by Yekaterina Kharitonova with reference to 1 and 2.

Need to add another symbol?
Email ykk@ucsb (remember to add .edu) with the subject “Keyboard symbol” or submit a Pull Request via Github.