🔣 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.