Know Names of Keyboard Symbols in Computer Keyboard

The computer keyboard is essential to enter characters, numbers, and special characters into your computer. We are all familiar with the QWERTY layout of a modern computer keyboard. The QWERTY name comes from the order of the first six keyboard keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard. This layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor, printer, and also is the inventor of the first typewriter. In our day to day life, we used different symbols and special characters on our computer keyboard to perform various tasks. But most of us don’t know the keyboard symbols names and meanings of our computer keyboard. There is not much use to remember all the names of keyboard symbols names for our day to day activities. But things may change if you want to explain a technical problem in your keyboard to a technician. Sometimes, you may have to mention the name of keyboard keys in your conversation. Here is the list of common computer keyboard symbols and its meaning in plain English.

Keyboard Symbols Names and Meanings
For programmers, these symbols are essential for their coding purpose. In anyways, for coding purposes, or want to discuss technical problems with an expert, or just want to learn the keyboard symbol names, here is a list of the symbols that commonly available in a computer keyboard.

Symbol	Name
&	ampersand or and
‘	apostrophe or single quote
*	asterisk
@	at
`	back quote
\	backslash
{ }	braces or curly braces
[ ]	brackets
^	carat
}	close brace
]	close bracket
)	close parenthesis
:	colon
,	comma
$	dollar
=	equal
!	exclamation  mark
>	greater than
<	less than
–	minus or hyphen
{	open brace
[	open bracket
(	open parenthesis
( )	parenthesis
%	percent
|	pipe or bar
+	plus
#	pound or number sign or sharp or hash
“	quote
;	semi-colon
/	slash or forward slash
~	tilde
_	underscore
?	Question Mark
.	Period, dot or Full Stop
F1 to F12	Function keys (what are function keys)

Keys	Name
Esc	Escape Key
Windows logo	Windows Key
Delete	Delete Key
Backspace	Backspace Key
Tab	Tab Key
Caps Lock	Caps Lock Key
Shift	Shift Key
Ctrl	Control Key
Alt	Alternate Key(Windows); Option Key (Mac)
Print Scrn (prt sc)	Print screen
Num lock	Number lock key to enable/disable numeric pad
Scroll Lock	Scroll lock key to stop scrolling of text
Pause/Break	Pause/Break key to temporarily halt
Page Up	Page up Key
Page Down	Page down Key
Insert	Insert Key
Home	Home key to return cursor to the beginning
Enter	Enter Key
End	End key to move the cursor to the end
Command key	Apple Mac computers
Spacebar	Space key for creating empty spaces
Arrows	Up, down, left, right arrow keys

This chart helps you to identify symbols, each keyboard key, and its use. Do you take too much time to complete a task on your computer or on your word processor? To take a screenshot of your desktop you can use the Printscreen button to capture the visible area of your screen.  You must learn these essential keyboard shortcuts to use your computer like a pro. You can read keyboard Key Names and Functions of Every Key to know the keyboard key names and its usage. Can you give some other uses of the keyboard symbols?