167 Symbols to Spice Up Your Twitter and Facebook Updates ♫✞★♥☺ –

You’ve probably seen a few fun symbols like musical notes ♫, smiley faces ☺, or hearts ♥ posted to Facebook or Twitter. But did you know there are dozens of interesting, non-alpha-numeric characters you can use in status updates and tweets?

Here are 167 of them I found…

Weather/Astrological

1. ☀ – sunshine – sun
2. ☼ – sunburst
3. ☉ – sun
4. ☁ – cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
5. ☂ – raining – rain – umbrella
6. ☃ – snow – snowman
7. ☄ – shooting star
8. ★ – star solid
9. ☆ – star outline
10. ☽ – waxing crescent moon
11. ☾ – waning crescent moon
12. ☇ – lightning
13. ☈ – thunderstorm
14. ° – degree – e.g. 45°
15. ℃ – Celsius
16. ℉ – Fahrenheit
17. ♈ – Aries
18. ♉ – Taurus
19. ♊ – Gemini
20. ♋ – Cancer
21. ♌ – Leo
22. ♍ – Virgo
23. ♎ – Libra
24. ♏ – Scorpio
25. ♐ – Sagitarius
26. ♑ – Capricorn
27. ♒ – Aquarius
28. ♓ – Pisces

Money

1. ¢ – cent
2. £ – pound
3. ¤ – currency
4. ¥ – yen
5. € – euro sign

Publishing & Punctuation

1. § – section
2. © – copyright
3. ℗ – Sound Recording Copyright
4. ® – registered trademark
5. ™ – trademark
6. ℠ – Service Mark
7. ¹ – superscript 1
8. ² – superscript 2
9. ³ – superscript 3
10. · – middle dot
11. • – bullet = black small circle
12. ¸ – spacing cedilla
13. ‼ – bang bang, or two exclamation points…it’s one character
14. ¶ – paragraph symbol)
15. ¿ – inverted question mark
16. ℅ – care of

Math

1. ① – 1 in a circle
2. ② – 2 in a circle
3. ③ – 3 in a circle
4. ④ – 4 in a circle
5. ⑤ – 5 in a circle
6. ⑥ – 6 in a circle
7. ⑦ – 7 in a circle
8. ⑧ – 8 in a circle
9. ⑨ – 9 in a circle
10. ⑩ – 10 in a circle
11. ¼ – fraction 1/4
12. ½ – fraction 1/2
13. ¾ – fraction 3/4
14. × – multiplication
15. ✕ – multiplication sign X
16. ✖ – heavy multiplication sign X
17. ÷ – division
18. № – numero symbol – number sign

Checks & Checkboxes

1. ✓ – check mark
2. ✔ – heavy check mark
3. ✗ – ballot X
4. ✘ – heavy ballot X
5. ☐ – check box
6. ☑ – check box check mark
7. ☒ – ballot box with X

Arrows

1. ► (black triangle pointing right)
2. ◄ (black triangle pointing left)
3. ↕ (up and down arrows)
4. ☚ – left-pointing index finger
5. ☛ – right-pointing index finger
6. ☜ – left-pointing index finger
7. ☝ – upwards pointing index finger
8. ☞ – right pointing index finger
9. ☟ – downwards pointing index finger

Smilies

1. ☹ – frowning face
2. ☺ – smiley face
3. ☻ – black smiley face

Chess & Cards

1. ♔ – White King
2. ♕ – White Queen
3. ♖ – White Rook
4. ♗ – White Bishop
5. ♘ – White Knight
6. ♙ – White Pawn
7. ♚ – Black King
8. ♛ – Black Queen
9. ♜ – Black Rook
10. ♝ – Black Bishop
11. ♞ – Black Knight
12. ♟ – Black Pawn
13. ♠ – black spade suit
14. ♢ – red diamond suit
15. ♣ – black club suit = shamrock
16. ♤ – red spade suit
17. ♥ – black heart suit = valentine
18. ♦ – black diamond suit
19. ♧ – red club suit

Music

1. ♩ – musical quarter note
2. ♪ – musical eighth note
3. ♫ – musical single bar note
4. ♬ – musical double bar note
5. ♭ – flat note
6. ♮ – natural note
7. ♯ – sharp note

Scissors & pencils

1. ✁ – cut above
2. ✂ – cut here
3. ✃ – cut below
4. ✄ – scissors
5. ✍ – signature – sign here
6. ✎ – pencil diagonal down
7. ✏ – pencil
8. ✐ – pencil diagonal up

Crosses & Religious Symbols

1. ✝ – Latin Roman Cross
2. ✞ – Latin Cross 3D shadow
3. ✟ – Latin Cross outline
4. ✠ – Maltese Cross
5. ☓ – St. Andrew’s Cross
6. ✡ – Star of David

Pipes and Wallpaper

1. ╣– T pipe
2. ║– straight pipe
3. ╗– left elbow pipe
4. ╝–right elbow pipe
5. ░ – light wallpaper
6. ▒ – medium light wallpaper
7. ▓ – medium wallpaper
8. █ – dark wallpaper
9. ▄ – half wallpaper

Misc

1. ♂ – Male
2. ♀ – Female
3. � – black diamond with question mark)
4. ◘ – block with white circle)
5. ◙ – block with filled white circle)
6. ◊ – lozenge
7. ℞ – Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol
8. Ω – Ohm
9. ℧ – Inverted Ohm
10. ☊ – ascending node
11. ☋ – descending node
12. ☌ – conjunction
13. ☍ – opposition
14. ☎ – phone
15. ☏ – phone symbol outline
16. ✆ – public pay phone
17. ✇ – film reel – tape spool
18. ✈ – airport jet airplane
19. ✉ – envelope mail email
20. ✌ – victory sign
21. ♨ – hot springs
22. ☠ – skull & crossbones
23. ☡ – caution sign
24. ☢ – radioactive sign
25. ☣ – biohazard sign
26. ☮ – peace sign
27. ☯ – yin & yang
28. ஓ – I have no idea???
29. ๑ – swirl
30. ۩ – birdhouse?
31. ۞ – 8 point star
32. εїз – butterfly, not actually 1 symbol but 3 combined.

Know of any I missed? Got any favorites?

The easiest way to put one of these symbols into a post/tweet, is to highlight it with your mouse, hit control-c to copy, click into the status update/tweet you’re writing and hit control-v to paste. So, you might want to bookmark this post so you can quickly add symbols to any posts/tweets from now on.

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