✓

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✓ U+2713, ✓
CHECK MARK
← ✒
 		Dingbats ✔ →
Character variations
Text style Emoji style
✔︎ ✔️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
✔ U+2714, ✔
HEAVY CHECK MARK
← ✓
 		Dingbats ✕ →
Text style Emoji style
✅︎ ✅️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
✅ U+2705, ✅
WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK
← ✄
 		Dingbats ✆ →
🗸 U+1F5F8, 🗸
LIGHT CHECK MARK
← 🗷
 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗹 →
Text style Emoji style
☑︎ ☑️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
☑ U+2611, ☑
BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
← ☐
 		Miscellaneous Symbols ☒ →
🗹 U+1F5F9, 🗹
BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD CHECK
← 🗸
 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗺 →

Translingual

Symbol

✓ (English symbol name tick or checkmark or check)

  1. Indicates an item (especially in a list) that is 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?!).
    • 2023 May 12, Lia Mappoura, “I tried Glossier's brand new G Suit lip crèmes so you don't have to – you're welcome”, in Cosmopolitan‎ (in English):
      I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.
  2. Indicates one's preference or vote. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with a checkmark: ☑.
    Synonym: ✗
    ☐ Candidate 1
    ☐ Candidate 2
    ☑ Candidate 3
  3. Indicates correctness (with the exception of some languages, in which it is used with the opposite meaning).
    Antonym: ✗ (“indicates incorrectness”)
    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

  • See also Appendix:Strikethrough for crossed text as in example, which also indicates items already dealt with.

See also

Further reading

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