Dagger

Meaning and uses

The dagger, a typographic mark for footnotes. Placed before a name it can mean the person has died, and its cross shape makes it a staple of gothic names.

Unicode details

† is the Unicode character named DAGGER, code point U+2020, in the General Punctuation block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as punctuation (general category Po).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type †

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 2020 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into †.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “dagger”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2020, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use † or †. In a CSS content property, use "\2020".