Dagger
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0134 on the numeric keypad to insert dagger.
- Alt code
- Alt+0134
- HTML entity
- †
- Unicode
- U+2020
About this symbol
The dagger descends from the obelus, a mark ancient Greek scholars used to flag doubtful lines in the works of Homer. Today it usually marks a second footnote, after the asterisk.
Placed before a name or a year, it means death, as in †1850. Biologists use it to mark a species that has died out.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DAGGER
- Also called
- Obelisk, long cross, oblong cross
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ⸸ Turned Dagger U+2E38
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