Copyright Sign
U+00A9©Emoji or pictograph · decimal ©
Copyright Symbols Copy & Paste
Copy 47 copyright symbols for documents, labels and legal notices. Encoded largely within Dingbats. 31 render as text and 16 as emoji.
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47 characters and sequences. Select any entry to copy the text behind it.
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Copyright Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
A sample of 12 entries from the 47 on this page. Where two entries look the same, the name settles it. The HTML references beside each name reproduce the code-point sequence character for character.
Sound Recording Copyright
U+2117℗Symbol · decimal ℗
Telephone Sign
U+2121℡Symbol · decimal ℡
Care Of
U+2105℅Symbol · decimal ℅
Black Telephone
U+260E☎Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☎
Black Scissors
U+2702✂Emoji or pictograph · decimal ✂
Tape Drive
U+2707✇Symbol · decimal ✇
Pencil
U+270F✏Emoji or pictograph · decimal ✏
Per Mille Sign
U+2030‰Punctuation · decimal ‰
White Right Pointing Index
U+261E☞Symbol · decimal ☞
Black Left Pointing Index
U+261A☚Symbol · decimal ☚
Trade Mark
U+2122 U+FE0F™ ️Emoji sequence · decimal ™ ️
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Copyright Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Copyright and trademark marks communicate rights claims, registration and source information.
Marks for documents that need to be exact: legal, medical and measurement. That amounts to 47 copyable values here — 41 of them one character long, 6 longer.
Names such as Copyright Sign, Sound Recording Copyright, Telephone Sign, Care Of appear here, and counting every entry puts Variation Selector-16 (6), Copyright Sign (2), Registered Sign (2) at the top. Single-character values span U+00A7 to U+1F16E.
Browse copyright symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
10 entries
Symbol
27 entries
Punctuation
4 entries
Emoji sequence
6 entries
What is actually in these copyright symbols
Where copyright symbols sit in the code space
Single-character entries cover U+00A7 to U+1F16E, breaking down by general category as symbol 37, punctuation 4.
Name patterns that repeat
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Variation Selector-16 (6), Copyright Sign (2), Registered Sign (2).
How the multi-part entries are built
6 entries span more than one code point: 0 with a zero-width joiner, 6 with a variation selector, the longest running to 2 code points.
Narrowing it down
Two look almost the same: Black Telephone and Black Scissors. They are different characters: U+260E and U+2702. Start with symbol.
It is the biggest group, with 27. Save punctuation for when you mean exactly that. Want colour?
Pick one of the 16 emoji. Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 31 plain ones.
Test the result in the real app before you use it.
©, ® and ™ make different claims. A symbol does not create rights by itself, and local trademark rules determine when registration marks may be used.
27Symbol
Standalone marks that follow your font. 57% here.
10Emoji or pictograph
Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 21% here.
6Emoji sequence
Several code points joined into one image. 13% here.
4Punctuation
Marks that structure written text. 9% here.
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Copyright Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
This page has 47 copyright symbols to copy. Most of them, 27 in all, are symbol. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Dingbats. 31 are plain text. The other 16 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 4 groups divide
They split into emoji or pictograph, symbol and punctuation. Symbol leads with 27.
Which blocks they come from
They come from Dingbats (15), Letterlike Symbols (11) and Miscellaneous Symbols (9). They span U+00A7 to U+1F16E, so no one font covers them all.
Two that look alike
Black Telephone and Black Scissors look alike. They are not the same character.
6 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 6 of these. Take the whole value.
Terms worth knowing
The vocabulary below comes from the formal names and groupings of these copyright symbols.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Punctuation
- Emoji sequence
- Copyright
- Registered
- Trademark
- Service
- Mark
- Copyleft
- Sound
- Recording
Quick comparison
| Type | Examples | Good for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emoji or pictograph | © ® ™ | Technical reports and measurements | Treating Copyright Sign and Sound Recording Copyright as the same character |
| Symbol | ℠ ℗ 🅭 | Office labels and contact details | Thinking every one of the 47 works the same everywhere |
| Punctuation | ‱ ‰ § | Legal, medical and professional notes | Copying only part of one of the 6 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value |
| Emoji sequence | ✌️ ☝️ ✍️ | Technical reports and measurements | Reaching for one of the 16 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type |
What the copyright symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 47 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Dingbats (15), Letterlike Symbols (11) and Miscellaneous Symbols (9).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emoji or pictograph | 10 | © ® ™ | U+00A9–U+260E | Emoji presentation |
| Symbol | 27 | ℠ ℗ 🅭 | U+2117–U+1F16E | Text presentation |
| Punctuation | 4 | ‱ ‰ § | U+00A7–U+2031 | Text presentation |
| Emoji sequence | 6 | ✌️ ☝️ ✍️ | sequence | Emoji presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Related reading
Compare these choices with office symbols and writing symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Technical and Math Symbols: Choosing the Correct Character. A faster route to the same point: are unicode mathematical symbols safe to use in equations?.
Tip: Keep the plain words next to the symbol. Text is what makes a design searchable and readable to someone using a screen reader.
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How to use copyright symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Technical reports and measurements
Start with Copyright Sign. It works nearly everywhere.
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Office labels and contact details
Symbol suits office labels and contact details. Pick one whose stroke weight matches the text around it.
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Legal, medical and professional notes
When creating legal, medical and professional notes, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready copyright symbols examples for technical reports and measurements
Technical reports and measurements
© Copyright referenceOffice labels and contact details
© ® ™Legal, medical and professional notes
™ copyright ©05
Typing copyright symbols without copying them
Copying is quicker, but these are typeable too. On Windows the alt code is the character's decimal code point; in Word the hexadecimal followed by Alt X does the same job without a keypad.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| © | Copyright Sign | Alt 169 | 00A9 | © |
| ℗ | Sound Recording Copyright | Alt 8471 | 2117 | ℗ |
| ℡ | Telephone Sign | Alt 8481 | 2121 | ℡ |
| ℅ | Care Of | Alt 8453 | 2105 | ℅ |
| ☎ | Black Telephone | Alt 9742 | 260E | ☎ |
| ✂ | Black Scissors | Alt 9986 | 2702 | ✂ |
Alt codes need a physical numeric keypad and stop at U+FFFF. 3 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 6 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. For the Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile detail, read the keyboard guide.
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How copyright symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Unicode keeps 43% of these in Dingbats. The rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols. 31 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 16 are emoji, so the system picks their colour, not you. Unicode files the emoji ones under People & Body and Symbols.
6 entries are made of several parts. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. Some are as recent as Emoji 0.7, so old devices may draw an empty box.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
41Single characters
6Sequences
16Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with copyright symbols
- 1
Treating Copyright Sign and Sound Recording Copyright as the same character.
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Thinking every one of the 47 works the same everywhere.
- 3
Copying only part of one of the 6 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 16 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Copyright Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Black Telephone and Black Scissors?+
U+260E is Black Telephone; U+2702 is Black Scissors. Because the encoded identity differs, substituting one for the other can change what a reader or a piece of software understands.
What is the HTML code for copyright sign?+
Write © (hex) or © (decimal) to get ©. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which copyright symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
31 of the 47 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 16 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these copyright symbols split apart when I paste it?+
6 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these copyright symbols in?+
Dingbats holds most of them — 15 characters; the rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols. Coverage tends to follow the block: long-established ones render nearly everywhere, recent additions do not.
Will these copyright symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.7. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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The data behind this page
Nothing here is estimated: the 47 entries are counted directly. The Unicode 17.0 character database supplies every formal name and category here, and the emoji data files decide which entries carry emoji properties.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data