Here’s a big list of symbols characters and alt codes for finding special characters for using in your chat programs, MSN, Facebook chat, Skype, Myspace etc. You can use symbols characters to send emotions to your friends, or to help you in microsoft word documents! You can also use these symbols characters on a mac. There are so many symbols you can use as characters…

Symbols characters

§ – section
© – copyright
® – registered trademark
™ – trademark
° – degree – e.g. 90°
¹ – superscript 1
² – superscript 2
³ – superscript 3
¢ – cents
£ – pounds
¥ – yen
€ – euros sign
· – middle dot
¸ – spacing cedilla
¿ – upside down question mark
× – multiply
÷ – division

More symbols and characters…

• – bullet = black small circle
◊ – lozenge
℠ – Service Mark
℃ – Celsius
℅ – care of
℉ – Farenheit
№ – numero symbol – number sign
¼ – fraction 1/4
½ – fraction 1/2
¾ – fraction 3/4
℗ – Sound Recording Copyright
℞ – Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol
Ω – Ohm
℧ – Inverted Ohm

More character symbols….

☀ – sunshine – sun
☁ – cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
☂ – raining – rain – umbrella
☃ – snow – snowman
☄ – shooting star
★ – star solid
☆ – star outline
☇ – lightning
☈ – thunderstorm
☉ – sun
☊ – ascending node
☋ – descending node
☌ – conjunction

More alt characters symbols…

☍ – opposition
☐ – check box
☒ – ballot box with X
☑ – check box check mark
☎ – phone
☏ – phone symbol outline
☓ – St. Andrew’s Cross
☠ – skull & crossbones
☡ – caution sign
☢ – radioactive sign
☣ – biohazard sign
☮ – peace sign
☯ – yin & yang
☹ – frowning face
☺ – smiley face
☻ – black smiley face
☽ – crescent moon
☾ – crescent moon
♈ – Aries
♉ – Taurus
♊ – Gemini
♋ – Cancer
♌ – Leo
♍ – Virgo
♎ – Libra
♏ – Scorpio
♐ – Sagitarius
♑ – Capricorn
♒ – Aquarius
♓ – Pisces
☚ – left-pointing index finger
☛ – right-pointing index finger
☜ – left-pointing index finger
☝ – up pointing index finger
☞ – right pointing index finger
☟ – down pointing index finger

More symbols characters…

♔ – White King
♕ – White Queen
♖ – White Rook
♗ – White Bishop
♘ – White Knight
♙ – White Pawn
♚ – Black King
♛ – Black Queen
♜ – Black Rook
♝ – Black Bishop
♞ – Black Knight
♟ – Black Pawn
♠ – black spade suit
♢ – red diamond suit
♣ – black club suit = shamrock
♤ – red spade suit
♥ – black heart suit = valentine
♦ – black diamond suit
♧ – red club suit
♨ – hot springs
♩ – musical quarter note
♪ – musical eighth note
♫ – musical single bar note
♬ – musical double bar note
♭ – flat note
♮ – natural note
♯ – sharp note

More characters symbols…

✁ – cut above
✂ – cut here
✃ – cut below
✄ – scissors
✆ – public pay phone
✇ – film reel – tape spool
✈ – airport jet airplane
✉ – envelope mail email
✌ – victory sign
✍ – signature – sign here
✎ – pencil diagonal down
✏ – pencil
✐ – pencil diagonal up
✝ – Latin Roman Cross
✞ – Latin Cross 3D shadow
✟ – Latin Cross outline
✠ – Maltese Cross
✡ – Star of David
❛ – quotation mark single turned comma
❜ – quotation mark single comma
❝ – quotation mark double turned comma
❞ – quotation mark double comma
✓ – check mark
✔ – heavy check mark
✕ – multiplication sign X
✖ – heavy multiplication sign X
✗ – ballot X
✘ – heavy ballot X