How to read(pronounce) keyboard symbols 키보드 기호 읽는 법

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~ : tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to computer-illiterate people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy"
! : exclamation; commonly read as bang in case of #!/bin/sh
@ : at
# : pound; but commonly read as shee in case of #!/bin/sh, not sure why
$ : dollar
% : percent
^ : caret; not many people know this word so be prepared to say "no, not carrot; it's the character above 6, an arrow pointing up"
& : ampersand
* : star; some read asterisk
( : opening parenthesis (some may shorten it saying paren)
) : closing parenthesis
_ : underscore; once I heard people say underbar
+ : plus
- : minus, hyphen; as symbol before arguments in commands, some people including me read dash, easier to say one syllable
= : equals
` : backtick or backquote
{ : opening brace
} : closing brace
[ : opening bracket
] : closing bracket
| : pipe or vertical bar
: backslash; be prepared to explain to some computer-illiterate people
: : colon
; : semicolon
" : double quote
' : single quote
< : less than; some may read left angle bracket
> : greater than
, : comma
. : dot; period if in English text
? : question mark
/ : slash or forward slash; some computer-illiterate people may be confused about / and
space

(), [] and {} may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I never like this. Open and Closing may also be called left and right.



■ Question

hey there
i'm no a native English speaker
i see there is may symbols on computer keyboard that i don't know how to read.
So would you like to tell me how to read these symbol
such as

~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = | * < > , ? / " ' : ;

and also love to know some of the frequently-used math symbols too

maybe you can find a link for me thanks a lot!!



■ Best Answer

~ “tilde” or “tweedle” or “squiggly line”. Also used as a “swung dash” and in mathematics with other signs to mean “approximately” and in logic sometimes used to mean “not”. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde,

` “grave accent” or “stress mark”. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accen... .

! “exclamation point” or “exclamation mark'. Used to end an emphatic sentence. Also often used in computer languages to mean “not” and in mathematics to indicate “factorial'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation... .

@ “at sign” or “commercial at sign”. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign .

# “number sign” or “pound sign' or “octothorpe” or “hash mark”

$ “dollar sign”, for example $29.00 would be read as “twenty-nine dollars'

% “percent sign”, so 50% is “fifty per cent''

^ “caret” or “up-arrow head” or “circumflex accent”. Often used on computers to indicate the following symbol(s) would be superscripted in normal typography, that is 5^23 is the same as 5²³. Sometimes called a “carrot” by the illiterate.

& “and sign” or “ampersand”. An abbreviation symbol for “and”.

* “asterisk” or “star”

( “opening parenthesis”

) “closing parenthesis”

_ “low line”, “underbar”, “underline”, “underscore”

- “hyphen-minus”, “hyphen”, “minus”: a typewriter symbol used for both hyphen and minus. Sometimes, when spaces appear on both sides of it, it represents a dash, but a dash is more often built from two hyphen-minuses. In normal typography for dashes there is an en-dash (–) and an em-dash (—) which are different characters.

+ "plus sign”

= “equal sign”

| “vertical line”, “vertical bar”, “pipe”

“backslash”

< “less than sign”

> “greater than sign”

, “comma”

. “period”, “full stop”, “decimal point”

? “question mark”

/ “slash”, “virgule”, also usually used on computers as a “division slash” or “solidus”, though in normal typography the division slash is more slanted. Misnamed “SOLIDUS” by Unicode.

" “quotation marks” or “straight quotation marks” or “typewriter quotation marks. Originally a typewriter substitute for “ (opening quotation marks), ” (closing quotation marks), ? (double prime used to mean “inches” and “seconds”), and〃(ditto mark).

' “apostrophe'' or “single quotation mark” or “straight apostrophe” or “typewriter apostrophe” or “straight single quotation mark” or “typewriter single quotation mark”. Originally a typewriter substitute for ‘ (opening single quotation mark), ’ (closing single quotation mark or apostrophe), ′ (single prime used to mean “feet” in measurement and to mean “minutes”)

: “colon”, a punctuation mark

; “semi-colon”, a punctuation mark

I started out making links, but Yahoo Answers only allows ten so I did not continue. But if you search on most of my meanings you will find articles that tell you more.

Many of these symbols also have other names in various special disciplines and some even have other common names.