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Ampersand is on key 7 (that is shift + 7).
What are symbols on other keys known as?

Give technical name like Ampersand for '&'.

2006-08-28 21:19:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Trivia

Plz also name keys on 9,0, _ |

2006-08-28 21:25:48 · update #1

7 answers

The entire top row, not including the Ampersand (&)...

~ Tilde
` Grave Accent
! Exclamation Mark/Exclamation Point
@ Commercial At
# Number Sign/Pound Sign
$ Dollar Sign
% Percent Sign
^ Circumflex Accent
* Asterisk
( Left Parenthesis
) Right Parenthesis
_ Low Line/Underscore
- Hyphen/Minus Sign
+ Plus Sign
= Equals Sign

And some others for good measure...

| Vertical Line
\ Reverse Solidus/Backslash
: Colon
; Semicolon
? Question Mark
/ Solidus/Forward Slash
< Less-Than Sign
> Greater-Than Sign
{ Left Curly Bracket
} Right Curly Bracket
[ Left Square Bracket
] Right Square Bracket
" Quotation Mark
' Apostrophe
, Comma
. Period/Full Stop

God bless.

2006-08-28 22:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5 0

General typography...

ampersand = &
asterisk = *
asterism = ⁂
at = @
backslash = \
bullet = •
caret = ^
currency = ¤ ¢, $, €, £, Â¥
dagger = † ‡
degree = °
interrobang = ‽
number sign = #
percent and related signs = % ‰ ‱
pilcrow = ¶
prime = ′
inverted exclamation point = ¡
inverted question mark = ¿
section sign = §
tilde = ~
umlaut/diaeresis = ¨
underscore/understrike = _
vertical line/pipe/broken bar = | ¦


keys on 9,0??? they r puncuations...

apostrophe = ' ’
brackets = ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉
colon = :
comma = ,
dashes = ‒ – — ― )
ellipsis = … ...
exclamation mark = !
full stop/period = .
guillemets = « »
hyphen = - ‐
interpunct = ·
question mark = ?
quotation marks = " ‘ ’ “ ”
semicolon = ;
slash/solidus = /

2006-08-29 04:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

~ - tilda
! - bang
@ - at
# - OCTOTHORPE
$ - dollar
% - percentage
^ - carat
* - asterix


Note the octothorpe! It is the real word for it! Derived from early booking mark for a farm with eight fields, usually denoted by number, thus the meaning!

Hash indeed! Octothorpe is the real name!

2006-08-29 04:26:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Tilde ~
@ (at sign, no idea of the technical term)
Sharp #
Dollar $
Percent symbol %
Caret ^
Asterisk *

2006-08-29 04:24:19 · answer #4 · answered by Bummerang 5 · 2 0

you just got the sufficient answers

2006-08-29 08:14:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

~ - tilda
! - bang
@ - at_the_rate
# - hash
$ - dollar
% - percentage
^ - carat
* - asterix

2006-08-29 04:23:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

* asterisk** (perenthesis)

2006-08-29 04:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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