✓Check mark symbol
The tick everyone means by “check mark”. Not the same as the green ✅ emoji.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? ✅ Check Mark Button — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+2713
- Alt code
- Alt+10003
- HTML
- ✓
- Unicode name
- Check Mark
Where the Check mark symbol comes from
The tick comes from Zapf Dingbats, the 1978 typeface Hermann Zapf drew for printers as a collection of ornaments and marks. When Unicode absorbed that typeface wholesale, the check mark came with it — which is why it lives among arrows, scissors and snowflakes rather than among mathematical signs.
Checklists, spreadsheets, documentation and anywhere a green ✅ would look like a sticker. In a table of features this is the mark that stays aligned with the text; the emoji version does not.
Check mark symbol codes
Four notations, one result: whatever you copy here comes out as U+2713.
How to type ✓ on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+2713 differs by tool.
Will ✓ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Check before you rely on it. Plenty of fonts skip this character. It works in system UI and common documents, but a designed font may not carry it.
Symbols people confuse with ✓
Lookalikes that are not the same character at all — separate codes, separate fonts, and here they number 5.
Other marks and signs
The rest of the family, one page each — origin, typing routes and font support, across all 6.
Dingbats and signs
Stars, snowflakes, scissors, checkmarks — the printer’s ornament set.