Microsoft® Manual of Style, Fourth Edition

Names of special characters

Use the terms in the following table to describe the special characters shown.

Character	Name
′	acute accent (not accent acute)
&	ampersand
< >	angle brackets
’	apostrophe (publishing character)
'	apostrophe (user-typed text)
*	asterisk (not star)
@	at sign
\	backslash
{ }	braces (not curly brackets)
[ ]	brackets
^	caret, circumflex (not accent circumflex)
¢	cent sign
« »	chevrons, opening and closing. Microsoft term, seldom used, especially in documentation. Also referred to as merge field characters in Word.
©	copyright symbol
†	dagger
°	degree symbol
÷	division sign
$	dollar sign
[[ ]]	double brackets
…	ellipsis (s), ellipses (pl). Do not add space between ellipsis points.
—	em dash
–	en dash
=	equal sign (not equals sign)
€	euro symbol ...