How To Write Special Symbols With Keyboard

When chatting or composing messages in social networking sites such as facebook, it spice up the conversation when you use emoticons and special characters. In Windows, unknown to majority, you can write Special Symbols very easily. You just have to hit the ALT key, press a number in numeric keypad and release the ALT key. For example to write a smiling face icon, just press ALT, then number 1 and then release ALT. Take note that you should press the number on the numeric pad and not on the number keys above the alpha letters in standard keyboard.



Here is the list of special characters when pressing number 1 to 20.

1- ☺
2- ☻
3- ♥
4- ♦
5- ♣
6- ♠
7- •
8- ◘
9- ○
10- ◙
11- ♂
12- ♀
13- ♪
14- ♫
15- ☼
16- ►
17- ◄
18- ↕
19- ‼
20- ¶