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ACCENTS AND PUNCTUATION
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
acute accent	´	´	´	´
ampersand	&	&	&	&
broken bar	¦	¦	¦	¦
circumflex accent, modifier letter	&circ;	ˆ	ˆ	ˆ
diaeresis (umlaut)	¨	¨	¨	¨
cedilla	¸	¸	¸	¸
dagger	&dagger;	†	†	†
dagger, double	&Dagger;	‡	‡	‡
ellipsis, horizontal	…	…	…	…
en dash	–	–	–	–
em dash	—	—	—	—
exclamation mark, inverted	¡	¡	¡	¡
hyphen, soft
left-to-right mark	&lrm;	‎	‎	‎
middle dot	·	·	·	·
overline	&oline;	‾	‾	‾
paragraph sign	¶	¶	¶	¶
quotation mark	"	"	"	"
question mark, inverted	¿	¿	¿	¿
quotation mark, left single	‘	‘	‘	‘
quotation mark, right single	’	’	’	’
quotation mark, single low-9	&sbquo;	‚	‚	‚
quotation mark, Left double	“	“	“	“
quotation mark, right double	”	”	”	”
quotation mark, double low-9	&bdquo;	„	„	„
right-to-left mark	&rlm;	‏	‏	‏
section sign	§	§	§	§
tilde, small	&tilde;	˜	˜	˜

ARROWS AND BRACKETS
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
downward pointing arrow	↓	↓	↓	↓
downward pointing arrow with corner left pointing	&crarr;	↵	↵	↵
downward pointing double arrow	&dArr;	⇓	⇓	⇓
left pointing arrow	←	←	←	←
left pointing double arrow	⇐	⇐	⇐	⇐
left right arrow	↔	↔	↔	↔
left right double arrow	⇔	⇔	⇔	⇔
right pointing arrow	→	→	→	→
right pointing double arrow	⇒	⇒	⇒	⇒
upward pointing arrow	↑	↑	↑	↑
upward pointing double arrow	&uArr;	⇑	⇑	⇑
left-pointing angle bracket	&lang;	〈	⟨	〈
left-pointing angle brackets, double	«	«	«	«
left-pointing angle bracket, single	&lsaquo;	‹	‹	‹
right-pointing angle bracket	&rang;	〉	⟩	〉
right-pointing angle brackets, double	»	»	»	»
right-pointing angle bracket, single	&rsaquo;	›	›	›

CURRENCY SYMBOLS
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
cent sign	¢	¢	¢	¢
currency sign	¤	¤	¤	¤
euro sign	€	€	€	€
pound sign	£	£	£	£
yen sign	¥	¥	¥	¥

GREEK CHARACTERS
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
uppercase alpha	Α	Α	Α	Α
uppercase beta	Β	Β	Β	Β
uppercase gamma	Γ	Γ	Γ	Γ
uppercase delta	Δ	Δ	Δ	Δ
uppercase epsilon	Ε	Ε	Ε	Ε
uppercase zeta	Ζ	Ζ	Ζ	Ζ
uppercase eta	Η	Η	Η	Η
uppercase theta	Θ	Θ	Θ	Θ
uppercase iota	Ι	Ι	Ι	Ι
uppercase kappa	Κ	Κ	Κ	Κ
uppercase lambda	Λ	Λ	Λ	Λ
uppercase mu	Μ	Μ	Μ	Μ
uppercase nu	Ν	Ν	Ν	Ν
uppercase xi	Ξ	Ξ	&#Xi;	Ξ
uppercase omicron	Ο	Ο	Ο	Ο
uppercase pi	Π	Π	Π	Π
uppercase rho	Ρ	Ρ	Ρ	Ρ
uppercase sigma	Σ	Σ	Σ	Σ
uppercase tau	Τ	Τ	Τ	Τ
uppercase upsilon	Υ	Υ	Υ	Υ
uppercase phi	Φ	Φ	Φ	Φ
uppercase chi	Χ	Χ	Χ	Χ
uppercase psi	Ψ	Ψ	Ψ	Ψ
uppercase omega	Ω	Ω	Ω	Ω
lowercase alpha	α	α	α	α
lowercase beta	β	β	β	β
lowercase gamma	γ	γ	γ	γ
lowercase delta	δ	δ	δ	δ
lowercase epsilon	ε	ε	ε	ε
lowercase zeta	ζ	ζ	ζ	ζ
lowercase eta	η	η	η	η
lowercase theta	θ	θ	θ	θ
lowercase iota	ι	ι	ι	ι
lowercase kappa	κ	κ	κ	κ
lowercase lambda	λ	λ	λ	λ
lowercase mu	μ	μ	μ	μ
lowercase nu	ν	ν	ν	ν
lowercase xi	ξ	ξ	&#xi;	ξ
lowercase omicron	ο	ο	ο	ο
lowercase pi	π	π	π	π
lowercase rho	ρ	ρ	ρ	ρ
lowercase final sigma	&sigmaf;	ς	ς	ς
lowercase sigma	σ	σ	σ	σ
lowercase tau	τ	τ	τ	τ
lowercase upsilon	υ	υ	υ	υ
lowercase phi	φ	φ	φ	φ
lowercase chi	χ	χ	χ	χ
lowercase psi	ψ	ψ	ψ	ψ
lowercase omega	ω	ω	ω	ω
lowercase theta symbol	&thetasym;	ϑ	ϑ	ϑ
upsilon with hook symbol	&upsih;	ϒ	ϒ	ϒ

LATIN CHARACTERS
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
uppercase A with grave	À	À	À	À
uppercase A with acute	Á	Á	Á	Á
uppercase A with circumflex	Â	Â	Â	Â
uppercase A with tilde	Ã	Ã	Ã	Ã
uppercase A with diaeresis	Ä	Ä	Ä	Ä
uppercase A with ring above	Å	Å	Å	Å
uppercase AE	Æ	Æ	Æ	Æ
uppercase C with cedilla	Ç	Ç	Ç	Ç
uppercase E with grave	È	È	È	È
uppercase E with acute	É	É	É	É
uppercase E with circumflex	Ê	Ê	Ê	Ê
uppercase E with diaeresis	Ë	Ë	Ë	Ë
uppercase I with grave	Ì	Ì	Ì	Ì
uppercase I with acute	Í	Í	Í	Í
uppercase I with circumflex	Î	Î	Î	Î
uppercase I with diaeresis	Ï	Ï	Ï	Ï
uppercase ETH	Ð	Ð	Ð	Ð
uppercase N with tilde	Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	Ñ
uppercase O with grave	Ò	Ò	Ò	Ò
uppercase O with acute	Ó	Ó	Ó	Ó
uppercase O with circumflex	Ô	Ô	Ô	Ô
uppercase O with tilde	Õ	Õ	Õ	Õ
uppercase O with diaeresis	Ö	Ö	Ö	Ö
uppercase O with stroke	Ø	Ø	Ø	Ø
uppercase ligature OE	&OElig;	Œ	Œ	Œ
uppercase S with caron	&Scaron;	Š	Š	Š
uppercase U with grave	Ù	Ù	Ù	Ù
uppercase U with acute	Ú	Ú	Ú	Ú
uppercase U with circumflex	Û	Û	Û	Û
uppercase U with diaeresis	Ü	Ü	Ü	Ü
uppercase Y with acute	Ý	Ý	Ý	Ý
uppercase Y with diaeresis	&Yuml;	Ÿ	Ÿ	Ÿ
uppercase THORN	Þ	Þ	Þ	Þ
lowercase letter sharp s	ß	ß	ß	ß
lowercase letter a with grave	à	à	à	à
lowercase letter a with acute	á	á	á	á
lowercase letter a with circumflex	â	â	â	â
lowercase letter a with tilde	ã	ã	ã	ã
lowercase letter a with diaeresis	ä	ä	ä	ä
lowercase letter a with ring above	å	å	å	å
lowercase letter ae	æ	æ	æ	æ
lowercase letter c with cedilla	ç	ç	ç	ç
lowercase letter e with grave	è	è	è	è
lowercase letter e with acute	é	é	é	é
lowercase letter e with circumflex	ê	ê	ê	ê
lowercase letter e with diaeresis	ë	ë	ë	ë
lowercase f with hook	&fnof;	ƒ	ƒ	ƒ
lowercase letter i with grave	ì	ì	ì	ì
lowercase letter i with acute	í	í	í	í
lowercase letter i with circumflex	î	î	î	î
lowercase letter i with diaeresis	ï	ï	ï	ï
lowercase letter eth	ð	ð	ð	ð
lowercase letter n with tilde	ñ	ñ	ñ	ñ
lowercase letter o with grave	ò	ò	ò	ò
lowercase letter o with acute	ó	ó	ó	ó
lowercase letter o with circumflex	ô	ô	ô	ô
lowercase letter o with tilde	õ	õ	õ	õ
lowercase letter o with diaeresis	ö	ö	ö	ö
lowercase letter o with stroke	ø	ø	ø	ø
lowercase ligature oe	&oelig;	œ	œ	œ
lowercase letter s with caron	&scaron;	š	š	š
lowercase letter u with grave	ù	ù	ù	ù
lowercase letter u with acute	ú	ú	ú	ú
lowercase letter u with circumflex	û	û	û	û
lowercase letter u with diaeresis	ü	ü	ü	ü
lowercase letter y with acute	ý	ý	ý	ý
lowercase letter thorn	þ	þ	þ	þ
lowercase letter y with diaeresis	ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	ÿ

MATHEMATICS/SCIENCE/PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
almost equal to	≈	≈	≈	≈
angle	&ang;	∠	∠	∠
approximately equal to	&cong;	≅	≅	≅
asterisk operator	&lowast;	∗	∗	∗
ceiling, left	&lceil;	⌈	⌈	⌈
ceiling, right	&rceil;	⌉	⌉	⌉
circled plus	&oplus;	⊕	⊕	⊕
circled times	&otimes;	⊗	⊗	⊗
contains as member	&ni;	∋	∋	∋
degree sign	°	°	°	°
dot operator	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
double prime	″	″	″	″
division sign	÷	÷	÷	÷
element of	∈	∈	∈	∈
empty set	∅	∅	∅	∅
feminine ordinal indicator	ª	ª	ª	ª
floor, left	&lfloor;	⌊	⌊	⌊
floor, right	&rfloor;	⌋	⌋	⌋
for all	∀	∀	∀	∀
fraction one quarter	¼	¼	¼	¼
fraction one half	½	½	½	½
fraction slash	&frasl;	⁄	⁄	⁄
fraction three quarters	¾	¾	¾	¾
greater-than sign	>	>	>	>
greater-than or equal to	≥	≥	≥	≥
infinity	∞	∞	∞	∞
integral	∫	∫	∫	∫
intersection	∩	∩	∩	∩
identical to	&equiv;	≡	≡	≡
less-than sign	<	<	<	<
less-than or equal to	≤	≤	≤	≤
logical and	&and;	∧	∧	∧
logical or	&or;	∨	∨	∨
masculine ordinal indicator	º	º	º	º
minus sign	−	−	−	−
multiplication sign	×	×	×	×
n-ary product	∏	∏	∏	∏
n-ary sumation	∑	∑	∑	∑
nabla	∇	∇	∇	∇
not a subset of	&nsub;	⊄	⊄	⊄
not an element of	∉	∉	∉	∉
not equal to	≠	≠	≠	≠
not sign	¬	¬	¬	¬
partial differential	∂	∂	∂	∂
per mille sign	&permil;	‰	‰	‰
pi symbol	ϖ	ϖ	ϖ	ϖ
plus-minus sign	±	±	±	±
primeminutes	′	′	′	′
proportional to	&prop;	∝	∝	∝
square root	√	√	√	√
subset of	⊂	⊂	⊂	⊂
subset of or equal to	&sube;	⊆	⊆	⊆
superscript one	¹	¹	¹	¹
superscript two	²	²	²	²
superscript three	³	³	³	³
superset of	⊃	⊃	⊃	⊃
superset of or equal to	&supe;	⊇	⊇	⊇
there exists	∃	∃	∃	∃
therefore	&there4;	∴	∴	∴
tilde operator	&sim;	∼	∼	∼
union	∪	∪	∪	∪
up tack	&perp;	⊥	⊥	⊥

SYMBOLS, SPACERS, ETC.
Entity Description	Character Entity	Numeric Entity	Char	Num
alef symbol	&alefsym;	ℵ	ℵ	ℵ
blackletter capital I	&image;	ℑ	ℑ	ℑ
blackletter capital R	&real;	ℜ	ℜ	ℜ
bullet	•	•	•	•
club	&clubs;	♣	♣	♣
copyright symbol	©	©	©	©
diamond	&diams;	♦	♦	♦
em space	&emsp;
en space	&ensp;
heart	&hearts;	♥	♥	♥
lozenge	&loz;	◊	◊	◊
non-breaking space
macron	¯	¯	¯	¯
micro sign	µ	µ	µ	µ
registered sign	®	®	®	®
script capital P	&weierp;	℘	℘	℘
spade	&spades;	♠	♠	♠
thin space
trade mark sign	™	™	™	™
zero width non-joiner	&zwnj;	‌	‌	‌
zero width joiner	&zwj;	‍	‍	‍

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