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.
| Order | Symbol | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 15 | – | Minus, 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 |