Mark Hobley 
PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS


Symbol
Name Other Names
SPACE space
! pling bang, exclamationmark
" bite doublequote, snakebite, quotes
# hash sharp, splat, crosshatch
$ dollar
string
% fly
cobra, percent, dragonfly, butterfly, wasp, grapes
& ampersand wheelchair, and
'
apostrophe
scar, singlequote
( openbracket leftbanana, openparenthesis, openroundbracket
) closebracket rightbanana, closeparenthesis, closeroundbracket
* star
asterix, multiply, wildcard, glob
+ plus
cross, church, add
, comma
- dash
minus, hyphen, takeaway
. dot
point, period, fullstop
/ forwardslash
climb, slash, slant, divide, stroke, diagonal, uphill
: colon eyes, dotdot, twodots, dots
; semicolon wink, dottedcomma
< lessthan leftchevron, openbeak, openchevron, openpointybracket, openangledbracket
= equals
railway, tramlines, roadside, kerb, roadway
> greaterthan rightchevron, closebeak, closedbeak, closechevron, closepointybracket, closeangledbracket
? hook
questionmark. query
@ snail
swirl, cabbage, vortex, whirl, strudle, at
[ openbox leftbox, opensquarebracket
\ backslash slope, slide, downhill, reversedslant, backslant
] closebox
rightbox, rightsquarebracket
^ caret fin, sharkfin, hat, circumflex, uparrow
_ underscore score, underline, underbar, path
` backtick
backquote, grave
{ leftboob
opencurlybracket, leftsquiggle, opensquigglybracket, opencurlybrace, leftnipple
| pipe
bar, pike, verticalbar, spike
} rightboob closecurlybracket, rightsquiggle, closesquigglybracket, closecurlybrace, rightnipple
~ tilde squiggle, wave, sinesoid