Dingbats Symbols Guide: ✓ ✗ ❖ ➤ Complete Collection Copy-Paste
Your complete reference for Unicode Dingbats — the diverse collection of checkmarks, crosses, arrows, decorative symbols, and ornamental characters at U+2700–U+27BF.
What Are Dingbats?
Dingbats are typographical ornaments and decorative symbols that originated in the printing industry. In typography, dingbats were used as space fillers, list markers, and decorative elements. Unicode preserves these as the Dingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF), containing 192 symbols.
The most famous Dingbats font is Zapf Dingbats, created by Hermann Zapf in 1978, which inspired the Unicode block. Wingdings (from Microsoft) is a similar but distinct symbol font.
✓ Checkmarks & Tick Symbols
✓
Check Mark
U+2713
✔
Heavy Check Mark
U+2714
✅
Check Mark Button
U+2705
☑
Ballot Box Check
U+2611
✗
Ballot X
U+2717
✘
Heavy Ballot X
U+2718
❌
Cross Mark
U+274C
☐
Empty Ballot Box
U+2610
➤ Arrow Dingbats
➤
Black Right Arrow
➜
Heavy Wide Arrow
➡
Right Arrow
➢
3D Arrow
➣
3D Arrow 2
➥
Right Arrow Curved
➦
Right Arrow Curved 2
➧
Squat Arrow
➨
Heavy Arrow
➩
Wavy Arrow
➪
Wavy Heavy Arrow
➫
Striated Arrow
➬
Notched Arrow
➭
Notched Curved Arrow
➮
Open Outlined Arrow
✿ Decorative & Floral Dingbats
✿
Black Florette
❀
White Florette
❁
8-Petal Flower
❂
Circled Open Centre
❃
Heavy Teardrop Flower
❄
Snowflake
❅
Tight Snowflake
❆
Heavy Chevron Snowflake
❇
Sparkle
❈
Heavy Sparkle
❉
Balloon Spoked Asterisk
❊
8-Teardrop Asterisk
❋
Heavy 8-Teardrop
✦
Black 4-Pointed Star
✧
White 4-Pointed Star
✩
Stress 6-Pointed Star
✪
Circled White Star
✫
Open Centre Black Star
✂ Scissors & Hand Symbols
✂
Black Scissors
U+2702
✃
Black Scissors
U+2703
✄
White Scissors
U+2704
☞
Right Hand Pointing
U+261E
☜
Left Hand Pointing
U+261C
☟
Down Hand Pointing
U+261F
☝
Up Hand Pointing
U+261D
✍
Writing Hand
U+270D
Common Uses for Dingbat Symbols
- Lists and checklists: Use ✓ or ✔ for completed items, ✗ or ✘ for incomplete
- Document design: Decorative ❖ and ✦ add visual interest to headers
- Social media bios: ✿ and ❋ flowers add a feminine or decorative touch
- Presentations: Arrow dingbats (➤) are cleaner alternatives to bullet points
- Email formatting: Symbols improve scannability in newsletters
- Chat and messaging: ✌ ✋ as text alternatives to emoji