Wavy Dash
U+3030〰Emoji or pictograph · decimal 〰
Wave Symbols Copy & Paste
Pick from 40 wave symbols for headers, bios and section breaks. The Mathematical Operators block supplies most of them. 37 render as text and 3 as emoji.
Copy wave symbols
40 characters and sequences. Select any entry to copy the text behind it.
Nothing here matches that.
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Wave Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 40. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Wavy Overline
U+FE4B﹋Punctuation · decimal ﹋
Triple Tilde
U+224B≋Symbol · decimal ≋
Water Wave
U+1F30A🌊Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🌊
Wreath Product
U+2240≀Symbol · decimal ≀
Centreline Overline
U+FE4A﹊Punctuation · decimal ﹊
Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket
U+FE37︷Punctuation · decimal ︷
Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket
U+FE3B︻Punctuation · decimal ︻
Presentation Form For Vertical Right Double Angle Bracket
U+FE3E︾Punctuation · decimal ︾
Lower Half Circle
U+25E1◡Symbol · decimal ◡
Sine Wave + Sine Wave + Sine Wave
U+223F U+223F U+223F∿ ∿ ∿Text sequence · decimal ∿ ∿ ∿
Text sequence (4 characters)
U+208A U+02DA U+002E U+0F04₊ ˚ . ༄Text sequence · decimal ₊ ˚ . ༄
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Wave Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Wave marks suggest water, rhythm, softness and motion in compact text designs.
Ready-made borders and dividers. They stay selectable as real text. That amounts to 40 copyable values here — 33 of them one character long, 7 longer.
Names such as Wavy Dash, Wavy Overline, Triple Tilde, Water Wave appear here, and counting every entry puts Presentation Form For (13), Wavy Dash (4), Fullwidth Tilde (4) at the top. Single-character values span U+223C to U+1F30A.
Browse wave symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
2 entries
Punctuation
19 entries
Symbol
12 entries
Text sequence
6 entries
Emoji sequence
1 entry
Counted from the stored set
Where wave symbols sit in the code space
Counted across U+223C to U+1F30A, the general-category split is punctuation 20, symbol 13.
How the official names cluster
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Presentation Form For (13), Wavy Dash (4), Fullwidth Tilde (4).
Sequence construction
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 5 code points is the longest single entry.
How to choose the right form
Watch out for Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket next to Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket. They are different characters: U+FE37 and U+FE3B. Punctuation is the safe default at 19 entries.
Only reach for emoji sequence when the narrower sense is the point. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 3 emoji, 37 plain. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
Grouping is by purpose. A single group can mix letters, symbols and punctuation as Unicode defines them.
19Punctuation
Punctuation, where small differences matter. 48% here.
12Symbol
Ordinary text symbols, styled by your CSS. 30% here.
6Text sequence
Several characters copied in a fixed order. 15% here.
2Emoji or pictograph
Drawn by the operating system, not your font. 5% here.
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Wave Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
This page has 40 wave symbols to copy. 19 of them are punctuation. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Mathematical Operators. 37 are plain text. The other 3 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 5 groups divide
Expect emoji or pictograph, punctuation and symbol. 19 sit under punctuation.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Mathematical Operators (12), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (5) and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (4). Across U+223C to U+1F30A, support gets patchy at the newer end.
The pair people mix up
Compare Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket with Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket. Same shape, different code point.
7 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 7 of these. Take the whole value.
Vocabulary for this topic
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Punctuation
- Symbol
- Text sequence
- Emoji sequence
- Wave
- Wavy
- Water
- Line
- Dash
- Overline
- Triple
A simple three-step method
- How the 5 groups divide: Expect emoji or pictograph, punctuation and symbol. 19 sit under punctuation.
- Encoding, and why coverage varies: They come from Mathematical Operators (12), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (5) and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (4). Across U+223C to U+1F30A, support gets patchy at the newer end.
- The pair people mix up: Compare Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket with Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket. Same shape, different code point.
- 7 entries are sequences: Half-copying breaks 7 of these. Take the whole value.
Wave-like marks have typographic, mathematical and pictorial roles
A wavy line can be punctuation, an operator, a width variant or an ocean emoji. Similar curvature does not make those identities interchangeable.
| Forms | Typical role | Identity warning |
|---|---|---|
| 〰 / 〜 / ～ | Wavy dash and fullwidth wave forms | Language and width conventions determine the correct character. |
| ∼ / ≈ / ≋ | Similarity and approximation relations | Choose the operator defined by the mathematical statement. |
| ﹏ ﹋ ﹌ | Small presentation forms | These compatibility shapes are not general-purpose decorative lines. |
| 🌊 | Water wave emoji | Color artwork conveys a pictorial ocean or surf idea. |
Practical note: For equations and East Asian punctuation, check the formal name and source convention. For decoration, test wrapping because repeated waves can break unevenly.
Keep exploring this topic
Compare these choices with line symbols and text divider symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Cool Symbols for Bios, Usernames and Captions. For a quick answer first, see can i use cool symbols on social media?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use wave 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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Profile sections and social captions
Start with Wavy Dash. It works nearly everywhere.
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Text dividers, borders and frames
When handling text dividers, borders and frames, the 19 punctuation entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Aesthetic names and short announcements
When creating aesthetic names and short announcements, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready wave symbols examples for profile sections and social captions
Profile sections and social captions
〰 Wave referenceText dividers, borders and frames
〰 〜 ～Aesthetic names and short announcements
～ wave 〰05
Typing wave symbols without copying them
If you would rather type than paste, the codes below are what you need — the decimal value for Windows, the hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 〰 | Wavy Dash | Alt 12336 | 3030 | 〰 |
| ﹋ | Wavy Overline | Alt 65099 | FE4B | ﹋ |
| ≋ | Triple Tilde | Alt 8779 | 224B | ≋ |
| 🌊 | Water Wave | Not available | 1F30A | 🌊 |
| ≀ | Wreath Product | Alt 8768 | 2240 | ≀ |
| ﹊ | Centreline Overline | Alt 65098 | FE4A | ﹊ |
Alt codes need a physical numeric keypad and stop at U+FFFF. 1 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 7 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Each platform's method is spelled out in the keyboard guide.
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How wave symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
About 57% come from Mathematical Operators. The rest come from CJK Symbols and Punctuation and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. 37 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 3 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour.
Unicode files the emoji ones under Travel & Places. 7 are built from more than one character. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart.
The newest here arrived in Emoji 0.6. Older phones show a blank box instead.
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.
33Single characters
7Sequences
3Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with wave symbols
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Mixing up Wavy Dash and Wavy Overline.
- 2
Treating the whole set as if it renders identically.
- 3
Copying only part of one of the 7 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 3 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Wave Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket and Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Presentation Form For Vertical Left Curly Bracket sits at U+FE37 and Presentation Form For Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket at U+FE3B, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for wavy dash?+
Write 〰 (hex) or 〰 (decimal) to get 〰. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which wave symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
37 of the 40 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 3 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these wave symbols split apart when I paste it?+
7 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 wave symbols in?+
Chiefly Mathematical Operators, which accounts for 12; the rest come from CJK Symbols and Punctuation and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these wave symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.6. 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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Learn more about wave symbols
Where to take wave symbols next
Borders and dividers are usually framing a heading, so the converters that produce that heading are the natural pairing.
Cursive Text ConverterCreate script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.Open the text converter →Old English Text ConverterBuild Fraktur-style text from Unicode mathematical letters and learn where fallback characters are used.Open the text converter →
Composing a finished design from these is what the Symbol Maker is for. Seven browser-based utilities are collected in the Unicode tools hub, which explains which one fits which job.
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Sources for these figures
Nothing here is estimated: the 40 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