Symbol Sets to Copy and Paste

Bows, butterflies, wings, stars, moons and more, one look per page. Tap a tile and it is copied, with its real name underneath.

A symbol set is a group of characters that look as if they belong together: bows, butterflies, wings, stars, a moon, the sea. People paste them round a name, into a bio or between the lines of a note, and sooner or later find out that half of them are not symbols at all.

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The usual text bow is the number 21 written in Odia digits. A popular pair of wings is two Latin letters filed under IPA Extensions. Each page here takes one look and lays it out as tiles: tap one and it is copied. Every character comes with its code point, its Unicode 18.0 name and the block it was borrowed from, since a device with no font for it shows an empty box instead. No two pages share more than a handful of characters.

Bows, butterflies, wings and hearts 5

The soft end of the family. Most of these were letters or digits in another script before anyone saw a bow in them.

Stars, moons and the sun 3

Every star character on one page, the moon with its star on another, and the sun with its rays on a third.

Sea, nature, eyes, music and Chinese characters 6

Sets named after a thing in the world. Where an emoji exists it is here, and where it does not the page says so.

Cool, goth, Y2K and rare 7

Sets named after a mood. These give way to the others, so nothing from the bow page turns up here pretending to be new.

Gamer tags, glitches, numbers and the very small 5

Sets built round a job instead of a look: a name for a game, a broken screen, a digit in every style, the smallest mark that still shows, an emoji with the colour taken out.

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