Copy and Paste Symbols

Aesthetic symbols for your bio and name

Most aesthetic bios use the same few ingredients: a small symbol on each side of a name, a soft divider, and one or two sparkles. Keep it light. One ✧ or ♡ next to a name reads as style. Five in a row reads as clutter, and it eats into a 30-character name limit fast.

Symbols count toward the length limit the same way letters do, and some count double. A ♡ is one character, but the flower 𖧷 and the treble clef 𝄞 use two units each. The counter in the string box shows the strict count that apps use, so build the whole line there, check the number, then copy it.

Mix symbols with a font style for a fuller look. Cute fonts has ready-made frames like ʚ ɞ and ୨ ୧, and cool fonts has gothic and outline letters that pair well with stars and arrows.

Dividers and borders for captions

A long caption is easier to read in short blocks. A divider such as ━━━━━━ or ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ between blocks does the job of a heading, and brackets like 『 』 or 【 】 work as a frame around a title, a date or a price.

Instagram and TikTok delete empty lines, so a divider on its own line also keeps the gap you wanted. If you want an empty line instead of a visible one, an invisible character holds the space.

Dividers look a little different on every phone, because each brand draws lines slightly thicker or thinner. A line that fills the width on one screen can wrap onto two lines on another, so keep dividers to about 8 to 12 characters.

Symbols that turn into color emoji

Some symbols are also emoji. ❤, ✔, ☀, ™ and ↔ show as plain black symbols in most places, but iPhones and some apps swap in the color emoji, especially when the symbol stands on its own. The tool marks these with a pink dot.

To keep the plain version, the symbol needs the text selector U+FE0E right after it. Many phones respect it and keep the symbol black and white, which is how the "kept plain" hearts on the heart symbol page are made. For a plain look on every phone, pick a symbol without the pink dot: ♡ instead of ♥, ✓ instead of ✔.

Which symbols show on every phone

Every symbol here is a Unicode character, not an image, so it pastes into any text box. Whether people can see it depends on their device having a font for it. Hearts, stars, arrows, math signs and currency signs are in the fonts of every current iPhone, Android phone and Windows computer.

A few symbols come from rarer blocks, like the Bamum flower 𖧷 or ꕥ from the Vai script. Those are marked with a dashed dot. They look great on new phones but can show as an empty box on older Android phones and some computers, so use them as decoration, never for words people need to read.

Heart symbols, kaomoji and more

Hearts have their own page, with color emoji hearts, text hearts like <3 and ready-made combos: see heart symbol copy and paste. For faces made of symbols, like (◕‿◕) or ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, go to kaomoji.

For a blank name or extra spacing, use an invisible character. To restyle the letters themselves, go back to the font changer.