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U+2713, ✓
CHECK MARK

[U+2712]
Dingbats
[U+2714]
Text style Emoji style
✔︎ ✔️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
U+2714, ✔
HEAVY CHECK MARK

[U+2713]
Dingbats
[U+2715]
Text style Emoji style
✅︎ ✅️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
U+2705, ✅
WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK

[U+2704]
Dingbats
[U+2706]
🗸 U+1F5F8, 🗸
LIGHT CHECK MARK
🗷
[U+1F5F7]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗹
[U+1F5F9]
Text style Emoji style
☑︎ ☑️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
U+2611, ☑
BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK

[U+2610]
Miscellaneous Symbols
[U+2612]
🗹 U+1F5F9, 🗹
BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD CHECK
🗸
[U+1F5F8]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗺
[U+1F5FA]

Translingual

Presentations of ☑︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
☑︎ ☑️
Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️
Presentations of ✅︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
✅︎ ✅️
Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️
Presentations of ✔︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
✔︎ ✔️
Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️

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