Weird Symbols Copy and Paste - Unusual and Rare Unicode Characters
Unicode contains over 140,000 characters — and many of them are genuinely weird, obscure, or rarely seen. From ancient writing systems to mathematical symbols to emoji you've never noticed, this collection brings together the most unusual symbols you can copy and paste.
Rare and Unusual Unicode Symbols
These uncommon symbols stand out in any context:
- ꩜ — Cham Punctuation Spiritus Asper
- ꔣ — Vai Syllable (looks like a face)
- 웃 — Korean character used as smiley
- 유 — Korean character used as female smiley
- ツ — Japanese Katakana (looks like a grin)
- シ — Japanese Katakana (smiling face variant)
- ヅ — Katakana variant
- Ю — Cyrillic letter YU
- ᚠ — Old Norse Rune (Fehu)
- ⌘ — Command symbol (Apple)
- ⌥ — Option key symbol
- ⌫ — Backspace symbol
- ⎋ — Escape key symbol
- ⏎ — Return symbol
Weird Punctuation and Marks
Obscure punctuation marks from various writing traditions:
- ⁂ — Asterism (three asterisks)
- ※ — Reference mark (Japanese)
- ⸮ — Percontation mark (reverse question mark)
- ‽ — Interrobang (question + exclamation)
- ⸘ — Inverted interrobang
- ⸓ — Dotted right-pointing angle
- ⟨ ⟩ — Angle brackets (math)
- ⟦ ⟧ — Double square brackets
- ☞ — Pointing finger right
- ☜ — Pointing finger left
- ☟ — Pointing finger down
- ☝ — Pointing finger up
- ⸎ — Tironian sign
- ⁋ — Pilcrow (paragraph backwards)
Strange Mathematical Symbols
- ∰ — Volume integral
- ⊕ — Circled plus (direct sum)
- ⊗ — Circled times (tensor product)
- ⋈ — Bowtie operator
- ∭ — Triple integral
- ⌊ ⌋ — Floor brackets
- ⌈ ⌉ — Ceiling brackets
- ∇ — Nabla/del operator
- ∮ — Contour integral
- ⊻ — XOR operator
- ≋ — Triple tilde
- ≣ — Strictly equivalent
- ⊿ — Right triangle
- ∿ — Sine wave
Ancient and Historic Writing Symbols
Characters from ancient writing systems that look distinctive and unusual:
- 𓀀 — Egyptian Hieroglyph (seated man)
- 𓂀 — Egyptian Hieroglyph (eye of Horus)
- 𓆙 — Egyptian Hieroglyph (cobra)
- ꀎ — Yi syllable
- ᚢ — Runic letter Ur
- ᛟ — Runic letter Othalan (Othala)
- ꙮ — Multiocular O (Cyrillic)
- Ꙅ — Cyrillic letter reversed Ze
- 𐍈 — Gothic letter Hwair
- 𐌰 — Old Italic letter A
Weird Emoji You Probably Haven't Used
These emoji exist but are rarely seen in the wild:
- 🫥 — Dotted Line Face (invisible)
- 🫨 — Shaking Face
- 🫛 — Pea Pod
- 🫎 — Moose
- 🪿 — Goose
- 🦤 — Dodo bird (extinct)
- 🪬 — Hamsa (evil eye hand)
- 🧿 — Nazar amulet
- ⚗ — Alembic (alchemy)
- 🔰 — Japanese beginner symbol
- ㊙ — Japanese secret button
- 🈳 — Japanese vacancy button
- 🆚 — VS button
- 🆘 — SOS button
Weird Symbols for Usernames
These characters make usernames unique and stand out on gaming platforms and social media:
- ツ — Very popular in gaming usernames
- ꩜ — Eye-catching spiral
- ⌘ — Tech aesthetic
- ‽ — Interrobang for quirky names
- 웃 — Used as a face in bios
- ꔣ — Unusual face-like character
- ⸮ — Reverse question mark
- ⟁ — Triangle variants
Why Does Unicode Have So Many Weird Symbols?
Unicode was designed to encode all writing systems in the world — past and present. This means it includes:
- Ancient scripts (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Linear B, Cuneiform)
- Mathematical and scientific notation
- Technical symbols from computing and electronics
- Musical notation
- Game and playing card symbols
- Alchemical symbols
- Symbols from minority and endangered languages
Most people only encounter a tiny fraction of Unicode characters in daily life — but the full standard is a treasure trove of weird, beautiful, and unexpected symbols.