✓

See also: √

Translingual

Symbol

✓

1. Indicates items in a list that were already dealt with, e.g., products in a grocery list that were already bought.
   • 2007, Steve Anderson, Meet the Robinsons, Walt Disney Pictures

     Things to do:

     ☑ Steal time machine

     ☑ Ruin science fair

     ☑ Pass off invention as my own!

   Milk ✓

   Eggs

   Flour ✓

2. Indicates one's preference or vote. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with a checkmark: ☑.

   ☐ Candidate 1

   ☐ Candidate 2

   ☑ Candidate 3

3. Indicates correctness (with the exception of some languages, in which it is used with the opposite meaning). See also: ✗ (“indicates wrongness”).

   2+2=4 ✓

   2+2=5 ✗

4. Used as a tally mark.
   • 2015, "Sleep Spells", season 1, episode 7b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil

     [Star saves Marco's life.]

     Marco: Thanks for saving me. Again, that makes twenty-eight saves for you, and four for me, but... Who's counting?

     [The checkmarks below are written on Marco's notebook.]

     [Star's face] ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓

     [Marco's face] ✓✓✓✓

5. (computing, dated) ISO 2047 symbol for Acknowledge.

Usage notes

In English, this is called tick, checkmark, check.

Synonyms

• See also Appendix:Strikethrough for crossed text as in example, which also indicates items already dealt with.
• ✗ (“indicates one's preference or vote”)

Antonyms

• ✗ (“indicates incorrectness”)

See also

• ☐

Further reading

• Tick (checkmark) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia