the Keyboard Characters and their Names

Keyboard

Row 1 (top row – shift digits)

~ tilde
` back quote or grave accent or back tic
! exclamation point or bang or pling
@ at sign
# pound sign or hash sign or octothorp
$ dollar sign
% percent sign
^ circumflex or caret
& ampersand or “and” sign
* asterisk, splat, or star
( left parenthesis or open paren
) right parenthesis or close paren
dash or minus sign
_ underscore or underline
+ plus sign
= equal sign

Row 2

{ left curly bracket or left brace
} right curly bracket or right brace
[ left square bracket
] right square bracket
| vertical bar or pipe sign
vertical bar is often broken in the middle
\ back slash

Row 3

: colon
; semi-colon
quotation marks or double quotes
apostrophe or single quote

Row 4

< left angle bracket or less than sign
> right angle bracket or greater than sign
, comma
. period or dot
? question mark
/ slash or forward slash

Look-up by punctuation name (alphabetical)

ampersand &
and sign &
angle brackets <>
apostrophe (usually on same key as )
asterisk *
at sign @
back quote ` (usually on same key as tilde ~ )
back tic ` (usually on same key as tilde ~ )
back slash \
bang !
braces { }
brackets [ ]
caret ^
circumflex ^
closing angle bracket >
closing brace }
closing curly bracket }
closing parenthesis )
closing square bracket ]
colon :
comma ,
curly braces { }
dash
dollar sign $
dot .
double quotes
equal sign =
exclamation point !
forward slash /
grave accent ` (usually on same key as tilde ~ )
greater than sign >
hash sign #
left angle bracket < left brace {
left curly bracket {
left parenthesis (
left square bracket [
less than sign <
minus sign
octothorp#
open angle bracket <
open brace {
open curly bracket {
open parenthesis (
open square bracket [
parentheses ( )
percent sign %
period .
pipe sign |
   pipe sign is often broken in the middle
pling !
plus sign +
pound sign #
question mark ?
quotation marks
right angle bracket >
right brace }
right curly bracket }
right parenthesis )
right square bracket ]
semi-colon ;
single quote (usually on same key as )
slash /
splat *
square brackets [ ]
star *
tilde ~
underline _
underscore _
vertical bar |
   vertical bar is often broken in the middle

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