✓

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✓ U+2713, ✓
CHECK MARK
← ✒
 		Dingbats ✔ →

✔ U+2714, ✔
HEAVY CHECK MARK
← ✓
 		Dingbats ✕ →

✅ U+2705, ✅
WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK
← ✄
 		Dingbats ✆ →
🗸 U+1F5F8, 🗸
LIGHT CHECK MARK
← 🗷
 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗹 →

☑ U+2611, ☑
BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
← ☐
 		Miscellaneous Symbols ☒ →

🗹 U+1F5F9, 🗹
BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD CHECK
← 🗸
 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗺 →

Translingual

Presentations of ☑︎
Text
style		 Emoji
style
☑︎ ☑️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️
Presentations of ✅︎
Text
style		 Emoji
style
✅︎ ✅️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️
Presentations of ✔︎
Text
style		 Emoji
style
✔︎ ✔️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Symbol

✓

  1. Indicates items in a list that are fulfilled or dealt with, e.g., products in a grocery list that were already bought.
    Milk ✓
    Eggs
    Flour ✓
    • 2007, Steve Anderson, Meet the Robinsons (in English), Walt Disney Pictures:
      Things to do:
      ☑ Steal time machine
      ☑ Ruin science fair
      ☑ Pass off invention as my own!
    • 2023 March 7, Gretty Garcia, “Yes, I *Did* Stay at the Same Hotel as Beyoncé in Dubai—and You Should Too”, in Cosmopolitan‎ (in English):
      Now that I’ve officially recovered from my epic experience, I can confirm that, yes, every single celeb and influencer imaginable was there to check out the hotel’s opening weekend (Chloe and Halle Bailey? ✔️ Ellen Pompeo? ✔️ Kendall Jenner? ✔️✔️✔️ I mean, did you not see the pics?!).
  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
      Marco: Thanks for saving me. Again, that makes twenty-eight saves for you, and four for me, but... Who's counting?
      ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
      ✓✓✓✓
  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

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