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HTML Entities • Punctuation Marks
Punctuation Marks
HTML entities for punctuation characters including ellipsis, en dash, em dash, section sign, pilcrow, inverted question mark, and inverted exclamation mark used for proper typography in web content.
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Punctuation Marks entities
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| Symbol | Description | HTML Entity | Unicode | Mac shortcut | Windows shortcut | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‑ |
Non-breaking Hyphen
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U+2011 | ⇧⌘- (*) | ⇧Strg - (*) | Detail | |
| |
Soft Hyphen (discretionary Hyphen)
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­ | U+00AD | ⌘- (*) | Strg - | Detail |
| – |
En-dash ("uk-dash – Use With Spaces Before And After")
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– | U+2013 | ⌥- | Alt 0150 | Detail |
| — |
Em-dash ("us-dash—use Without Spaces")
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— | U+2014 | ⇧⌥- | Alt 0151 | Detail |
| … |
Ellipsis
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… | U+2026 | ⌥. | Detail | |
| ¡ |
Inverted Exclamation Mark
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¡ | U+00A1 | ⌥1 | Alt 0161 | Detail |
| ¿ |
Inverted Question Mark
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¿ | U+00BF | ⌥? | Alt 0191 | Detail |
| ¶ |
Pilcrow / Paragraph Mark
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¶ | U+00B6 | ⌥3 | Alt 0182 | Detail |
| · |
Middle Dot/interpunct
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· | U+00B7 | ⇧⌥9 | Alt 0183 | Detail |
| • |
Bullet Point
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• | U+2022 | ⌥Ü | Alt 0149 | Detail |
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Last updated: 17 Aug 2026
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