Most common UTF-8 Special Characters

Here are the most common HTML 4.0 special characters from the UTF-8 Character Set. Specifically, we've listed the most important and most frequently used characters for UTF-8 character set.

Common HTML character codes for the UTF-8 Character Set

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In order to be specify the UTF-8 Character set, you will probably want to ensure that the following line appears in the head section of every web page.

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8">

A full Character Entity Reference for HTML 4.0 is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html40/sgml/entities.html

The Unicode organization maintains a table of all the 1.1 million codes at http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Most common Latin Characters

Name	Symb	Decimal	Hex Code	Description	ISO
			U+00A0	no-break space = non-breaking space	ISOnum
¡	¡	¡	U+00A1	inverted exclamation mark	ISOnum
¢	¢	¢	U+00A2	cent sign	ISOnum
£	£	£	U+00A3	pound sign	ISOnum
¤	¤	¤	U+00A4	currency sign	ISOnum
¥	¥	¥	U+00A5	yen sign = yuan sign	ISOnum
¦	¦	¦	U+00A6	broken bar = broken vertical bar	ISOnum
§	§	§	U+00A7	section sign	ISOnum
¨	¨	¨	U+00A8	diaeresis = spacing diaeresis	ISOdia
©	©	©	U+00A9	copyright sign	ISOnum
ª	ª	ª	U+00AA	feminine ordinal indicator	ISOnum
«	«	«	U+00AB	left-pointing double angle quotation mark = left pointing guillemet	ISOnum
¬	¬	¬	U+00AC	not sign = discretionary hyphen	ISOnum
			U+00AD	soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen	ISOnum
®	®	®	U+00AE	registered sign = registered trade mark sign	ISOnum
¯	¯	¯	U+00AF	macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar	ISOdia
°	°	°	U+00B0	degree sign	ISOnum
±	±	±	U+00B1	plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign	ISOnum
²	²	²	U+00B2	superscript two = superscript digit two = squared	ISOnum
³	³	³	U+00B3	superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed	ISOnum
´	´	´	U+00B4	acute accent = spacing acute	ISOdia
µ	µ	µ	U+00B5	micro sign	ISOnum
¶	¶	¶	U+00B6	pilcrow sign = paragraph sign	ISOnum
·	·	·	U+00B7	middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot	ISOnum
¸	¸	¸	U+00B8	cedilla = spacing cedilla	ISOdia
¹	¹	¹	U+00B9	superscript one = superscript digit one	ISOnum
º	º	º	U+00BA	masculine ordinal indicator	ISOnum
»	»	»	U+00BB	right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet	ISOnum
¼	¼	¼	U+00BC	vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter	ISOnum
½	½	½	U+00BD	vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half	ISOnum
¾	¾	¾	U+00BE	vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters	ISOnum
¿	¿	¿	U+00BF	inverted question mark = turned question mark	ISOnum
À	À	À	U+00C0	Latin capital letter A with grave = Latin capital letter A grave	ISOlat1
Á	Á	Á	U+00C1	Latin capital letter A with acute	ISOlat1
Â	Â	Â	U+00C2	Latin capital letter A with circumflex	ISOlat1
Ã	Ã	Ã	U+00C3	Latin capital letter A with tilde	ISOlat1
Ä	Ä	Ä	U+00C4	Latin capital letter A with diaeresis	ISOlat1
Å	Å	Å	U+00C5	Latin capital letter A with ring above = Latin capital letter A ring	ISOlat1
Æ	Æ	Æ	U+00C6	Latin capital letter AE = Latin capital ligature AE	ISOlat1
Ç	Ç	Ç	U+00C7	Latin capital letter C with cedilla	ISOlat1
È	È	È	U+00C8	Latin capital letter E with grave	ISOlat1
É	É	É	U+00C9	Latin capital letter E with acute	ISOlat1
Ê	Ê	Ê	U+00CA	Latin capital letter E with circumflex	ISOlat1
Ë	Ë	Ë	U+00CB	Latin capital letter E with diaeresis	ISOlat1
Ì	Ì	Ì	U+00CC	Latin capital letter I with grave	ISOlat1
Í	Í	Í	U+00CD	Latin capital letter I with acute	ISOlat1
Î	Î	Î	U+00CE	Latin capital letter I with circumflex	ISOlat1
Ï	Ï	Ï	U+00CF	Latin capital letter I with diaeresis	ISOlat1
Ð	Ð	Ð	U+00D0	Latin capital letter ETH	ISOlat1
Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	U+00D1	Latin capital letter N with tilde	ISOlat1
Ò	Ò	Ò	U+00D2	Latin capital letter O with grave	ISOlat1
Ó	Ó	Ó	U+00D3	Latin capital letter O with acute	ISOlat1
Ô	Ô	Ô	U+00D4	Latin capital letter O with circumflex	ISOlat1
Õ	Õ	Õ	U+00D5	Latin capital letter O with tilde	ISOlat1
Ö	Ö	Ö	U+00D6	Latin capital letter O with diaeresis	ISOlat1
×	×	×	U+00D7	multiplication sign	ISOnum
Ø	Ø	Ø	U+00D8	Latin capital letter O with stroke = Latin capital letter O slash	ISOlat1
Ù	Ù	Ù	U+00D9	Latin capital letter U with grave	ISOlat1
Ú	Ú	Ú	U+00DA	Latin capital letter U with acute	ISOlat1
Û	Û	Û	U+00DB	Latin capital letter U with circumflex	ISOlat1
Ü	Ü	Ü	U+00DC	Latin capital letter U with diaeresis	ISOlat1
Ý	Ý	Ý	U+00DD	Latin capital letter Y with acute	ISOlat1
Þ	Þ	Þ	U+00DE	Latin capital letter THORN	ISOlat1
ß	ß	ß	U+00DF	Latin small letter sharp s = ess-zed	ISOlat1
à	à	à	U+00E0	Latin small letter a with grave = Latin small letter a grave	ISOlat1
á	á	á	U+00E1	Latin small letter a with acute	ISOlat1
â	â	â	U+00E2	Latin small letter a with circumflex	ISOlat1
ã	ã	ã	U+00E3	Latin small letter a with tilde	ISOlat1
ä	ä	ä	U+00E4	Latin small letter a with diaeresis	ISOlat1
å	å	å	U+00E5	Latin small letter a with ring above = Latin small letter a ring	ISOlat1
æ	æ	æ	U+00E6	Latin small letter ae = Latin small ligature ae	ISOlat1
ç	ç	ç	U+00E7	Latin small letter c with cedilla	ISOlat1
è	è	è	U+00E8	Latin small letter e with grave	ISOlat1
é	é	é	U+00E9	Latin small letter e with acute	ISOlat1
ê	ê	ê	U+00EA	Latin small letter e with circumflex	ISOlat1
ë	ë	ë	U+00EB	Latin small letter e with diaeresis	ISOlat1
ì	ì	ì	U+00EC	Latin small letter i with grave	ISOlat1
í	í	í	U+00ED	Latin small letter i with acute	ISOlat1
î	î	î	U+00EE	Latin small letter i with circumflex	ISOlat1
ï	ï	ï	U+00EF	Latin small letter i with diaeresis	ISOlat1
ð	ð	ð	U+00F0	Latin small letter eth	ISOlat1
ñ	ñ	ñ	U+00F1	Latin small letter n with tilde	ISOlat1
ò	ò	ò	U+00F2	Latin small letter o with grave	ISOlat1
ó	ó	ó	U+00F3	Latin small letter o with acute	ISOlat1
ô	ô	ô	U+00F4	Latin small letter o with circumflex	ISOlat1
õ	õ	õ	U+00F5	Latin small letter o with tilde	ISOlat1
ö	ö	ö	U+00F6	Latin small letter o with diaeresis	ISOlat1
÷	÷	÷	U+00F7	division sign	ISOnum
ø	ø	ø	U+00F8	Latin small letter o with stroke, = Latin small letter o slash	ISOlat1
ù	ù	ù	U+00F9	Latin small letter u with grave	ISOlat1
ú	ú	ú	U+00FA	Latin small letter u with acute	ISOlat1
û	û	û	U+00FB	Latin small letter u with circumflex	ISOlat1
ü	ü	ü	U+00FC	Latin small letter u with diaeresis	ISOlat1
ý	ý	ý	U+00FD	Latin small letter y with acute	ISOlat1
þ	þ	þ	U+00FE	Latin small letter thorn with	ISOlat1
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	U+00FF	Latin small letter y with diaeresis	ISOlat1
™	™	™	U+2122	Trademark Symbol	-

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