Check Mark Symbols Copy and Paste

1. Choose plain, boxed, or emoji checks depending on whether you need a text dingbat or a color emoji.

2. Click the mark. Compare ✓, ✔, ☑, and ✅ in the destination app—they are different characters.

3. Paste into a checklist or message. Use Cross Symbols if you need an X rather than a check.

These are Unicode check characters and emoji. Their appearance can vary by device and application. Crosses and X marks are not on this page; they have their own collection.

The four marks people search for most are different characters. ✓ (U+2713 CHECK MARK) is a text dingbat: a light tick that usually stays the same color as surrounding type. ✔ (U+2714 HEAVY CHECK MARK) is a heavier dingbat in the same family; it still behaves as text unless an app forces an emoji presentation. ✅ (U+2705 WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK) is typically drawn as a color emoji—often a green mark in a box or badge—so it will not match body text the way ✓ does. ☑ (U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK) is a checkbox with a tick already inside it, not a standalone tick. Pasting the wrong one is the usual reason a “checkmark” looks like a sticker, a form control, or a faint serif tick.

Unicode also distinguishes text versus emoji presentation. Some cards on this board include a text-style variant (with a variation selector) so you can prefer a monochrome dingbat when the destination would otherwise colorize it. Emoji-style checks such as ✅, ☑️, and ✔️ follow the phone’s emoji font and can look different on iOS, Android, and Windows. A checklist in a legal or academic document is usually safer with ✓ or ✔ in a text style. A chat reaction or informal to-do in a caption often wants ✅. ☑ reads as “this box is checked”; an empty ballot box is a different character and is not a substitute for a tick.

You can type some of these without a picker. Windows Win + . and macOS Character Viewer both search for “check mark.” In HTML, ✓ is ✓ and ✔ is ✔; emoji checks are safer copied than entity-typed because presentation depends on the emoji font. In Microsoft Word, a checkbox is often a form control or a Wingdings glyph, which is not the same as pasting U+2713—copying a Word checkbox into Slack can drop the mark or turn it into an unrelated letter. If you need the character to survive email, chat, and a code comment, paste a Unicode check from this board and test it.

What this page is not: it is not a source of X marks, cancel icons, or multiplication signs. ✗, ✘, and ❌ live on Cross Symbols so a “wrong” mark does not sit in a list of ticks. It is also not a to-do app: pasting ☑ does not create an interactive checkbox. Screen readers may announce “check mark,” “heavy check mark,” or the emoji name, so a list of ✅ items can be noisy. For a document that must stay printable and monochrome, prefer ✓ or ✔. For a colorful chat confirmation, prefer ✅. Copy the specific character, then look at it in the app where readers will see it.