Option Key
Option Key has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⌥
- Unicode
- U+2325
About this symbol
⌥ is the symbol of the Option key on Apple keyboards, and it appears in menus beside commands that use it, as in ⌥⌘Esc. It is usually described as a picture of a railway switch, a track that offers an alternative route.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- OPTION KEY
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Keyboard symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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