167 Symbols to Spice Up Your Twitter and Facebook Updates ♫✞★♥☺

You’ve probably seen a few fun symbols like musical notes ♫, smiley faces ☺, or hearts ♥ posted to Facebook or Twitter. But did you know there are dozens of interesting, non-alpha-numeric characters you can use in status updates and tweets?

Here are 167 of them I found…

Weather/Astrological

1. sunshine – sun
2. sunburst
3. sun
4. cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
5. raining – rain – umbrella
6. snow – snowman
7. shooting star
8. star solid
9. star outline
10. waxing crescent moon
11. waning crescent moon
12. lightning
13. thunderstorm
14. degree – e.g. 45°
15. Celsius
16. Fahrenheit
17. Aries
18. Taurus
19. Gemini
20. Cancer
21. Leo
22. Virgo
23. Libra
24. Scorpio
25. Sagitarius
26. Capricorn
27. Aquarius
28. Pisces

Money

1. cent
2. pound
3. currency
4. yen
5. euro sign

Publishing & Punctuation

1. section
2. copyright
3. Sound Recording Copyright
4. registered trademark
5. trademark
6. Service Mark
7. superscript 1
8. superscript 2
9. superscript 3
10. middle dot
11. bullet = black small circle
12. spacing cedilla
13. bang bang, or two exclamation points…it’s one character
14. paragraph symbol)
15. inverted question mark
16. care of

Math

1. 1 in a circle
2. 2 in a circle
3. 3 in a circle
4. 4 in a circle
5. 5 in a circle
6. 6 in a circle
7. 7 in a circle
8. 8 in a circle
9. 9 in a circle
10. 10 in a circle
11. fraction 1/4
12. fraction 1/2
13. fraction 3/4
14. multiplication
15. multiplication sign X
16. heavy multiplication sign X
17. division
18. numero symbol – number sign

Checks & Checkboxes

1. check mark
2. heavy check mark
3. ballot X
4. heavy ballot X
5. check box
6. check box check mark
7. ballot box with X

Arrows

1. (black triangle pointing right)
2. (black triangle pointing left)
3. (up and down arrows)
4. left-pointing index finger
5. right-pointing index finger
6. left-pointing index finger
7. upwards pointing index finger
8. right pointing index finger
9. downwards pointing index finger

Smilies

1. frowning face
2. smiley face
3. black smiley face

Chess & Cards

1. White King
2. White Queen
3. White Rook
4. White Bishop
5. White Knight
6. White Pawn
7. Black King
8. Black Queen
9. Black Rook
10. Black Bishop
11. Black Knight
12. Black Pawn
13. black spade suit
14. red diamond suit
15. black club suit = shamrock
16. red spade suit
17. black heart suit = valentine
18. black diamond suit
19. red club suit

Music

1. musical quarter note
2. musical eighth note
3. musical single bar note
4. musical double bar note
5. flat note
6. natural note
7. sharp note

Scissors & pencils

1. cut above
2. cut here
3. cut below
4. scissors
5. signature – sign here
6. pencil diagonal down
7. pencil
8. pencil diagonal up

Crosses & Religious Symbols

1. Latin Roman Cross
2. Latin Cross 3D shadow
3. Latin Cross outline
4. Maltese Cross
5. St. Andrew’s Cross
6. Star of David

Pipes and Wallpaper

1. T pipe
2. straight pipe
3. left elbow pipe
4. right elbow pipe
5. light wallpaper
6. medium light wallpaper
7. medium wallpaper
8. dark wallpaper
9. half wallpaper

Misc

1. Male
2. Female
3. black diamond with question mark)
4. block with white circle)
5. block with filled white circle)
6. lozenge
7. Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol
8. Ohm
9. Inverted Ohm
10. ascending node
11. descending node
12. conjunction
13. opposition
14. phone
15. phone symbol outline
16. public pay phone
17. film reel – tape spool
18. airport jet airplane
19. envelope mail email
20. victory sign
21. hot springs
22. skull & crossbones
23. caution sign
24. radioactive sign
25. biohazard sign
26. peace sign
27. yin & yang
28. I have no idea???
29. swirl
30. birdhouse?
31. 8 point star
32. butterfly, not actually 1 symbol but 3 combined.

Know of any I missed? Got any favorites?

The easiest way to put one of these symbols into a post/tweet, is to highlight it with your mouse, hit control-c to copy, click into the status update/tweet you’re writing and hit control-v to paste. So, you might want to bookmark this post so you can quickly add symbols to any posts/tweets from now on.

Show Your Creativity

It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun. Create the most creative symbol-laden message you can come up with. Post it in the comments, post it to Facebook, post it to Twitter.

Invite your friends to join the fun and post their most creative message too!

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Paul Steinbrueck

Co-founder & CEO, OurChurch.Com

Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.

An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.

Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.