Apple Symbols is a

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introduced in

Mac OS X 10.3 Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3) is the fourth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X Jaguar and preceded Mac OS X Tiger. It was released on October 24, 2003. System requirements Panther's s ...

"Panther." This is a

TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...

font, intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...

Standard. It continues to ship with Mac OS X as part of the default installation. Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, its path was /Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf. From Mac OS X 10.5 onward, is to be found at /System/Library/Fonts/Apple Symbols.ttf, meaning it is now considered an essential part of the system software, not to be deleted by users. The version of the font as of Mac OS X 10.5 is 6.0d7e4. It remains to be available in modern macOS versions such as

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List of glyphs

The Mac OS X version of the font contains over 5000 glyphs from the following

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...

s: * U+0000–U+007F Basic Latin * U+0080–U+00FF

Latin-1 Supplement The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) - FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. Thi ...

* U+0180–U+024F

Latin Extended-B Latin Extended-B is the fourth block (0180-024F) of the Unicode Standard. It has been included since version 1.0, where it was only allocated to the code points 0180-01FF and contained 113 characters. During unification with ISO 10646 for version ...

* U+02B0–U+02FF

Spacing Modifier Letters Spacing Modifier Letters is a Unicode block containing characters for the IPA, UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for aspiration and palatalization Palatalization may refer to: *Palatalizat ...

* U+0300–U+036F

Combining Diacritical Marks Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character " Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, act ...

* U+0370–U+03FF

Greek and Coptic Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode ...

* U+1F00–U+1FFF

Greek Extended Greek Extended is a Unicode block containing the accented vowels necessary for writing polytonic Greek. The regular, unaccented Greek characters as well as the characters with tonos and diaeresis can be found in the Greek and Coptic block. ...

* U+2000–U+206F

General Punctuation General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic a ...

* U+2070–U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts * U+20A0–U+20CF Currency Symbols * U+2100–U+214F

Letterlike symbols Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not expl ...

* U+2150–U+218F

Number Forms Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals. In addition to the ch ...

* U+2190–U+21FF Arrows * U+2200–U+22FF

Mathematical Operators Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and set notation. Notably absent are the plus sign (+), greater than sign (>) and less than sign (<), due to them already appearing in the Basic L ...

* U+2300–U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical * U+2400–U+243F

Control Pictures Control Pictures is a Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes ...

* U+2440–U+245F

Optical Character Recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...

* U+2500–U+257F Box Drawing * U+2580–U+259F

Block Elements Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of th ...

* U+25A0–U+25FF

Geometric Shapes Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF. U+25A0–U+25CF The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing. U ...

* U+2600–U+26FF

Miscellaneous Symbols Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, tri ...

* U+27C0–U+27EF

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A is a Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and do ...

* U+27F0–U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A * U+2800–U+28FF Braille Patterns * U+2900–U+297F Supplemental Arrows-B * U+2980–U+29FF

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, angles, and circle symbols. Block Some of these symbols are used in Z notation. Specifically * * * * * * The last two s ...

* U+2A00–U+2AFF Supplemental Mathematical Operators * U+2B00–U+2BFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows * U+2E80–U+2EFF

CJK Radicals Supplement CJK Radicals Supplement is a Unicode block containing alternative, often positional, forms of the Kangxi radicals The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radical ...

* U+2F00–U+2FDF

Kangxi Radicals The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

* U+4DC0–U+4DFF

Yijing Hexagram Symbols Yijing Hexagram Symbols is a Unicode block containing the 64 hexagrams from the ''I Ching''. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Yijing Hexagram Symbols block: ...

* U+A700–U+A71F Modifier Tone Letters * U+FE50–U+FE6F Small Form Variants * U+FE70–U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B * U+FF00–U+FFEF

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms In CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 全形; in CJK: 全角) and halfwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 半形; in CJK: 半角) characters. Unlike ...

* U+FFF0–U+FFFF Specials * U+10100–U+1013F

Aegean Numbers Aegean numbers was an additive sign-value numeral system used by the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. They are attested in Linear A and Linear B scripts. They may have survived in the Cypro-Minoan script, where a single sign with "100" ...

* U+10140–U+1018F

Ancient Greek Numbers Ancient Greek Numbers is a Unicode block containing acrophonic numerals used in ancient Greece, including ligatures Ligature may refer to: * Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure * ...

* U+10190–U+101CF

Ancient Symbols Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ancient Symbols blo ...

* U+10400–U+1044F Deseret * U+10450–U+1047F Shavian * U+1D100–U+1D1FF Musical Symbols * U+1D300–U+1D35F Tai Xuan Jing Symbols * U+1D360–U+1D37F

Counting Rod Numerals Counting Rod Numerals is a Unicode block containing traditional Chinese counting rod symbols, which mathematicians used for calculation in ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The orientation of the Unicode characters follows Song dynasty co ...

* U+1D400–U+1D7FF

Mathematical alphanumeric symbols Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The letters in various fonts ofte ...

History

Mac OS X 10.3

*Introduced with the following: ** General Punctuation **

Currency Symbol A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by the monetary authority, like the national central bank for the currency concerned. In formatting, the symbol can use various format ...

s **

Letterlike Symbols Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not expl ...

** Arrows **

** Box Drawing ** Block Elements ** Geometric Shapes **

** Deseret

Mac OS X 10.4

Version 5.0d5e1: *

Braille Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille display ...

Yijing The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zh ...

Hexagram , can be seen as a compound composed of an upwards (blue here) and downwards (pink) facing equilateral triangle, with their intersection as a regular hexagon (in green). A hexagram ( Greek language, Greek) or sexagram (Latin) is a six-pointed ...

Symbols * Small Form Variants * Musical Symbols *

Tai Xuan Jing The text ''Tài Xuán Jīng'' ("Canon of Supreme Mystery", ) is a guide for divination composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE). The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE (in the decade before the fall of the Wes ...

Symbols *

glyph variant Allography, from the Greek for "other writing", has several meanings which all relate to how words and sounds are written down. Authorship An allograph may be the opposite of an autograph – i.e. a person's words or name (signature) written by s ...

Mac OS X 10.5

Apple Symbols was significantly extended for its Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard") release, version 6.0d7e4 (2007-08-03), and more than tripled its glyph repertoire. As well as additions to the Unicode blocks partially covered by earlier releases, the font included new glyphs for Latin, Greek, Shavian, and the following Unicode blocks: * U+02B0–U+02FF

* U+0300–U+036F

* U+2070–U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts * U+2150–U+218F

* U+2300–U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical * U+2400–U+243F

* U+27C0–U+27EF

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