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Aesthetic symbols and cool symbols to copy and paste
Click a symbol to copy it, or click several to build a divider and copy the whole thing. These are text characters, not images, so they paste anywhere text does.
Showing 590 of 590 symbols. Click any one to copy it and add it to the collection below.
Edit it like any text box — reorder the pieces, add a space, delete the one you did not mean to click.
These are text characters, not images: they paste anywhere text does, and they render with whatever font the reader's device has, so a few of the rarer ones show as an empty box on an older phone. A handful — ☺ ☂ ⚡ ✂ ✈ ⚠ among them — have an emoji form too, and some apps silently swap in the coloured version. A screen reader reads the Unicode name of each one, so a line of twelve stars is twelve announcements of “black star” before your sentence starts. Decorate one line, not every line.
Every symbol here is a letter from some other alphabet
Nothing on this page was designed for an Instagram bio. The stars and dingbats come from a 1970s typesetting catalogue, the box-drawing lines were encoded so terminals could draw tables, the brackets are Japanese punctuation, and the decorative dots and rings are combining marks and letters borrowed from Kannada, Thai and the phonetic alphabet.
That history is why they work: a caption field accepts them because they are ordinary text. It is also why they sometimes fail. A character is only drawn if the reader's device has a font that includes it, and the rarer ones from the far corners of Unicode are exactly the ones an older phone is missing.
Symbol or emoji? The reader's app decides, not you
| Character | As text | What some apps show instead |
|---|---|---|
| ☺ ☹ | Small outlined faces | The full-colour smiling and frowning emoji |
| ☂ ☀ ☁ ❄ | Line-drawn weather | Coloured weather emoji |
| ✂ ✈ ☎ ✉ | Line-drawn objects | Coloured scissors, plane, phone and envelope |
| ⚡ ⚠ ⚙ | Outlined signs | Coloured lightning, warning and gear emoji |
| ★ ✿ ✧ ✦ ❥ | Always text | No emoji form exists, so these are the safe decorative choices |
Where it holds up, and where it does not
- A divider between lines of a bio, or one star at the end of a display name, is the natural use. That is where the look is the point and the words around it carry the meaning.
- Never put a symbol in a handle. Usernames on every major platform are restricted to letters, digits, underscores and full stops, and a symbol is rejected or stripped.
- Count the characters. A divider like ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* is twelve code points against Instagram's 150-character bio, and a few of these characters count double on X.
- A screen reader reads the Unicode name of each one, so a line of twelve stars is twelve announcements of “black star” before your sentence. Decorate once, not on every line.