What are the Names of the Keyboard Symbols (Full List)

The keyboard is the way we use to enter or manipulate data or information, and it looks more or less like the one below:

Other than the letters (a to z) and numbers (0 – 9) on the keyboard, there are also many symbols for different purposes. Here is the full list of the symbols and their names.

OrderSymbolName
1~Tilde
2`Grave Accent
3!Exclamation Mark, Ecphoneme
4@At Sign
5#Number Sign, Hash,
Pound Sign or Octothorpe
6$Dollar
7%Percent
8^Caret
9&Ampersand or And
10*Asterisk
11(Open Parenthesis
12)Close Parenthesis
13( )Parenthesis
14_Underscore
15Minus, Hyphen, en dash, em dash
16+Plus
17=Equal
18{Open Brace, Open Curly Bracket
19}Close Brace, Close Curly Bracket
20{ }Brace or Curly Brackets
21[Open Square Bracket
22]Close Square Bracket
23[ ]Square Bracket
24|Vertical Pipe
25\Back Slash
26:Colon
27;Semicolon
28"Quotation Marks
29" "Double Quotation Marks
30'Apostrophe
31' 'Single Quotation Marks
32,Comma
33<Less Than
34>Greater Than
35.Period, Dot
36/Slash (Forward Slash), Solidus, Virgule
37?Question Mark, Eroteme

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