🔣 HTML Entities & Symbols

Last Updated: 01 Nov 2025


HTML Entities are special codes used to display characters that have reserved meaning in HTML or cannot be typed directly.

For example:

  • < is used to start a tag — so if you write it directly, browser gets confused.
  • To show it as text, use entity code &lt; → displays <.

✅ Entities always start with & and end with ;.

<p>2 &lt; 5 and 10 &gt; 2</p>

🗣 Hinglish Tip: Entity = HTML ka secret code jo special character ko safely show karta hai 🧩


Common HTML Entities

SymbolEntity NameCodeDescription
&&amp;&#38;Ampersand
<&lt;&#60;Less than
>&gt;&#62;Greater than
"&quot;&#34;Double quote
'&apos;&#39;Single quote
©&copy;&#169;Copyright symbol
®&reg;&#174;Registered trademark
&trade;&#8482;Trademark
&#8377;&#8377;Indian Rupee
&rarr;&#8594;Right Arrow
&larr;&#8592;Left Arrow
&uarr;&#8593;Up Arrow
&darr;&#8595;Down Arrow

Common Math Symbols

SymbolEntityDescription
±&plusmn;Plus/minus
×&times;Multiplication
÷&divide;Division
&ne;Not equal
&le;Less than or equal
&ge;Greater than or equal
&radic;Square root
&infin;Infinity
&asymp;Almost equal
&sum;Summation
π&pi;Pi symbol