Alternative Key Symbol
Alternative Key Symbol 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+2387
About this symbol
⎇ is the international symbol for the Alt key, from ISO 9995-7, the standard for symbols printed on keyboard keys. Some European keyboards print it on the Alt key instead of the letters, so the key needs no translation.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Keyboard symbols from ISO 9995-7
- Added in
- Unicode 3.0 (1999)
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