Checks · Hands · Signs
Check marks, crosses, pointing hands and assorted signs and marks — copy any one instantly.
53 symbols
About
A check mark says "done" faster than any word, and this set gives you every weight of it. The light ✓ is the quiet, everyday tick you drop beside a finished line; the heavy ✔ lands with more ink for a bolder confirmation. Their opposites — ✗ ✘ and the crossing pair ✕ ✖ — mark what failed, what's wrong, or what you're ruling out. One tap copies any of them as plain text you can paste straight into a message, a spreadsheet cell, or a caption.
When you want the box as well as the mark, the checkbox glyphs carry both. ☑ shows a ticked box, ☒ a box crossed out, and ☓ the bare saltire on its own. Each is a single character rather than two shapes stacked together, so they stay aligned in a spreadsheet column or a comment thread where a real clickable checkbox control isn't available.
Then there are the pointing hands — the little manicules ☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟ that printers once used to jab a reader toward the important line. Drop ☞ in front of a note to say "read this," point ☝ up at a pinned message, or steer a bio with a left ☚ and right ☛. The set also holds a victory ✌ and a writing hand ✍ for a quick, wordless aside — something none of the neighbouring symbol pages give you.
Rounding out the page is a drawer of everyday signs you'd otherwise hunt for on an emoji keyboard: a telephone ☎, an envelope ✉, scissors ✂, a warning ⚠, recycling ♻, accessibility ♿, peace ☮ and yin-yang ☯, plus the Mac command ⌘ and option ⌥ keys and a stray lightning bolt ⚡. There are heavy crosses too — ✚ for first-aid notes and ✝ for memorials or religious text — all in flat, single-colour line work.
Every glyph here is ordinary Unicode text, not a colour emoji, so it looks the same on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and inherits your font and colour instead of turning into a picture you can't restyle. That's also why the weights matter: the slim ✓ ✗ usually take your text colour, while the heavy ✔ ✘ ✖ carry thicker strokes that stand out on a busy background. On Windows, Alt+10003 types ✓ and Alt+10004 types ✔ where decimal alt-codes work; everywhere else, click, paste, done.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I copy a check mark or tick?
- Tap or click the mark you want — ✓ for a light tick or ✔ for a heavier one — and it copies to your clipboard as plain text. Paste it anywhere you can type, from a spreadsheet cell to an Instagram caption.
- How do I type an X, cross, or "no" mark?
- Copy ✗ or the crossing ✕ for a slim X, or the bolder ✘ ✖ when it needs more weight. On Windows you can also type a multiplication-style × with Alt+0215, but the ✗ ✘ glyphs here read more clearly as a "wrong" or "rejected" mark.
- How do I make a checkbox symbol?
- Use ☑ for a ticked box, ☒ for a crossed one, and ☓ for the bare saltire. Because each is a single character, they line up neatly in lists and spreadsheets where a real clickable checkbox isn't an option.
- What are the pointing hand symbols for?
- The manicules ☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟ are pointing hands that draw the eye toward a line — handy for a "read this ☞" note, showing direction, or steering a social bio. The page also includes a victory hand ✌ and a writing hand ✍.
- What's the difference between the heavy and light check marks?
- Light ✓ ✗ have thinner strokes and usually take on your surrounding text colour; heavy ✔ ✘ ✖ have thicker strokes and read bolder. Pick light for subtle inline marks and heavy when the tick needs to stand out.
- Are these symbols emoji, and will they show on every device?
- No — every glyph here is plain Unicode text, not a colour emoji. That means ✓ ✔ ☑ ☞ keep the same shape across Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and inherit your font and colour instead of turning into a picture.