This web page is a human readable version of the DTD that can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent. This DTD specifies the available character entity for the Special set.

Typical invocation (for xhtml1) is by explicitly using the following tag in your document:

    <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC
       "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent">

Usage

The table below gives the entity name, and the numeric code for the character. If you for example want to put a greek delta (δ) in your text, you can use either:

    Here is a delta &delta; in my text

Or you can use:

    Here is a delta &#948; in my text
name code appearance description Category
Latin Extended-B
fnof 402 ƒ latin small f with hook = function = florin U+0192 ISOtech
Greek
Alpha 913 Α greek capital letter alpha U+0391
Beta 914 Β greek capital letter beta U+0392
Gamma 915 Γ greek capital letter gamma U+0393 ISOgrk3
Delta 916 Δ greek capital letter delta U+0394 ISOgrk3
Epsilon 917 Ε greek capital letter epsilon U+0395
Zeta 918 Ζ greek capital letter zeta U+0396
Eta 919 Η greek capital letter eta U+0397
Theta 920 Θ greek capital letter theta U+0398 ISOgrk3
Iota 921 Ι greek capital letter iota U+0399
Kappa 922 Κ greek capital letter kappa U+039A
Lambda 923 Λ greek capital letter lambda U+039B ISOgrk3
Mu 924 Μ greek capital letter mu U+039C
Nu 925 Ν greek capital letter nu U+039D
Xi 926 Ξ greek capital letter xi U+039E ISOgrk3
Omicron 927 Ο greek capital letter omicron U+039F
Pi 928 Π greek capital letter pi U+03A0 ISOgrk3
Rho 929 Ρ greek capital letter rho U+03A1
there is no Sigmaf, and no U+03A2 character either
Sigma 931 Σ greek capital letter sigma U+03A3 ISOgrk3
Tau 932 Τ greek capital letter tau U+03A4
Upsilon 933 Υ greek capital letter upsilon U+03A5 ISOgrk3
Phi 934 Φ greek capital letter phi U+03A6 ISOgrk3
Chi 935 Χ greek capital letter chi U+03A7
Psi 936 Ψ greek capital letter psi U+03A8 ISOgrk3
Omega 937 Ω greek capital letter omega U+03A9 ISOgrk3
alpha 945 α greek small letter alpha U+03B1 ISOgrk3
beta 946 β greek small letter beta U+03B2 ISOgrk3
gamma 947 γ greek small letter gamma U+03B3 ISOgrk3
delta 948 δ greek small letter delta U+03B4 ISOgrk3
epsilon 949 ε greek small letter epsilon U+03B5 ISOgrk3
zeta 950 ζ greek small letter zeta U+03B6 ISOgrk3
eta 951 η greek small letter eta U+03B7 ISOgrk3
theta 952 θ greek small letter theta U+03B8 ISOgrk3
iota 953 ι greek small letter iota U+03B9 ISOgrk3
kappa 954 κ greek small letter kappa U+03BA ISOgrk3
lambda 955 λ greek small letter lambda U+03BB ISOgrk3
mu 956 μ greek small letter mu U+03BC ISOgrk3
nu 957 ν greek small letter nu U+03BD ISOgrk3
xi 958 ξ greek small letter xi U+03BE ISOgrk3
omicron 959 ο greek small letter omicron U+03BF NEW
pi 960 π greek small letter pi U+03C0 ISOgrk3
rho 961 ρ greek small letter rho U+03C1 ISOgrk3
sigmaf 962 ς greek small letter final sigma U+03C2 ISOgrk3
sigma 963 σ greek small letter sigma U+03C3 ISOgrk3
tau 964 τ greek small letter tau U+03C4 ISOgrk3
upsilon 965 υ greek small letter upsilon U+03C5 ISOgrk3
phi 966 φ greek small letter phi U+03C6 ISOgrk3
chi 967 χ greek small letter chi U+03C7 ISOgrk3
psi 968 ψ greek small letter psi U+03C8 ISOgrk3
omega 969 ω greek small letter omega U+03C9 ISOgrk3
thetasym 977 ϑ greek small letter theta symbol U+03D1 NEW
upsih 978 ϒ greek upsilon with hook symbol U+03D2 NEW
piv 982 ϖ greek pi symbol U+03D6 ISOgrk3
General Punctuation
bull 8226 • bullet = black small circle U+2022 ISOpub
bullet is NOT the same as bullet operator, U+2219
hellip 8230 … horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader U+2026 ISOpub
prime 8242 ′ prime = minutes = feet U+2032 ISOtech
Prime 8243 ″ double prime = seconds = inches U+2033 ISOtech
oline 8254 ‾ overline = spacing overscore U+203E NEW
frasl 8260 ⁄ fraction slash U+2044 NEW
Letterlike Symbols
weierp 8472 ℘ script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p U+2118 ISOamso
image 8465 ℑ blackletter capital I = imaginary part U+2111 ISOamso
real 8476 ℜ blackletter capital R = real part symbol U+211C ISOamso
trade 8482 ™ trade mark sign U+2122 ISOnum
alefsym 8501 ℵ alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal U+2135 NEW
alef symbol is NOT the same as hebrew letter alef, U+05D0 although the same glyph could be used to depict both characters
Arrows
larr 8592 ← leftwards arrow U+2190 ISOnum
uarr 8593 ↑ upwards arrow U+2191 ISOnu
rarr 8594 → rightwards arrow U+2192 ISOnum
darr 8595 ↓ downwards arrow U+2193 ISOnum
harr 8596 ↔ left right arrow U+2194 ISOamsa
crarr 8629 ↵ downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return U+21B5 NEW
lArr 8656 ⇐ leftwards double arrow U+21D0 ISOtech
Unicode does not say that lArr is the same as the 'is implied by' arrow but also does not have any other character for that function. So ? lArr can be used for 'is implied by' as ISOtech suggests
uArr 8657 ⇑ upwards double arrow U+21D1 ISOamsa
rArr 8658 ⇒ rightwards double arrow U+21D2 ISOtech
Unicode does not say this is the 'implies' character but does not have another character with this function so ? rArr can be used for 'implies' as ISOtech suggests
dArr 8659 ⇓ downwards double arrow U+21D3 ISOamsa
hArr 8660 ⇔ left right double arrow U+21D4 ISOamsa
Mathematical Operators
forall 8704 ∀ for all U+2200 ISOtech
part 8706 ∂ partial differential U+2202 ISOtech
exist 8707 ∃ there exists U+2203 ISOtech
empty 8709 ∅ empty set = null set = diameter U+2205 ISOamso
nabla 8711 ∇ nabla = backward difference U+2207 ISOtech
isin 8712 ∈ element of U+2208 ISOtech
notin 8713 ∉ not an element of U+2209 ISOtech
ni 8715 ∋ contains as member U+220B ISOtech
should there be a more memorable name than 'ni'?
prod 8719 ∏ n-ary product = product sign U+220F ISOamsb
prod is NOT the same character as U+03A0 'greek capital letter pi' though the same glyph might be used for both
sum 8721 ∑ n-ary sumation U+2211 ISOamsb
sum is NOT the same character as U+03A3 'greek capital letter sigma' though the same glyph might be used for both
minus 8722 − minus sign U+2212 ISOtech
lowast 8727 ∗ asterisk operator U+2217 ISOtech
radic 8730 √ square root = radical sign U+221A ISOtech
prop 8733 ∝ proportional to U+221D ISOtech
infin 8734 ∞ infinity U+221E ISOtech
ang 8736 ∠ angle U+2220 ISOamso
and 8743 ∧ logical and = wedge U+2227 ISOtech
or 8744 ∨ logical or = vee U+2228 ISOtech
cap 8745 ∩ intersection = cap U+2229 ISOtech
cup 8746 ∪ union = cup U+222A ISOtech
int 8747 ∫ integral U+222B ISOtech
there4 8756 ∴ therefore U+2234 ISOtech
sim 8764 ∼ tilde operator = varies with = similar to U+223C ISOtech
tilde operator is NOT the same character as the tilde, U+007E, although the same glyph might be used to represent both
cong 8773 ≅ approximately equal to U+2245 ISOtech
asymp 8776 ≈ almost equal to = asymptotic to U+2248 ISOamsr
ne 8800 ≠ not equal to U+2260 ISOtech
equiv 8801 ≡ identical to U+2261 ISOtech
le 8804 ≤ less-than or equal to U+2264 ISOtech
ge 8805 ≥ greater-than or equal to U+2265 ISOtech
sub 8834 ⊂ subset of U+2282 ISOtech
sup 8835 ⊃ superset of U+2283 ISOtech
note that nsup, 'not a superset of, U+2283' is not covered by the Symbol font encoding and is not included. Should it be, for symmetry? It is in ISOamsn
nsub 8836 ⊄ not a subset of U+2284 ISOamsn
sube 8838 ⊆ subset of or equal to U+2286 ISOtech
supe 8839 ⊇ superset of or equal to U+2287 ISOtech
oplus 8853 ⊕ circled plus = direct sum U+2295 ISOamsb
otimes 8855 ⊗ circled times = vector product U+2297 ISOamsb
perp 8869 ⊥ up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular U+22A5 ISOtech
sdot 8901 ⋅ dot operator U+22C5 ISOamsb
dot operator is NOT the same character as U+00B7 middle dot
Miscellaneous Technical
lceil 8968 ⌈ left ceiling = apl upstile U+2308 ISOamsc
rceil 8969 ⌉ right ceiling U+2309 ISOamsc
lfloor 8970 ⌊ left floor = apl downstile U+230A ISOamsc
rfloor 8971 ⌋ right floor U+230B ISOamsc
lang 9001 〈 left-pointing angle bracket = bra U+2329 ISOtech
lang is NOT the same character as U+003C 'less than' or U+2039 'single left-pointing angle quotation mark'
rang 9002 〉 right-pointing angle bracket = ket U+232A ISOtech
rang is NOT the same character as U+003E 'greater than' or U+203A 'single right-pointing angle quotation mark'
Geometric Shapes
loz 9674 ◊ lozenge U+25CA ISOpub
Miscellaneous Symbols
spades 9824 ♠ black spade suit U+2660 ISOpub
black here seems to mean filled as opposed to hollow
clubs 9827 ♣ black club suit = shamrock U+2663 ISOpub
hearts 9829 ♥ black heart suit = valentine U+2665 ISOpub
diams 9830 ♦ black diamond suit U+2666 ISOpub