If you're puzzled by a symbol you saw offline, it makes more sense to find the symbol by a picture. You'll find several sites that offer the functionality to draw a symbol and find ou… See more

If you come across an unfamiliar icon while you're browsing the web, you don't have to worry about looking it up on a symbol identifier site. Simply run a symbol search with Googl… See more

Unicode (the standard for text encoding) supports a number of common symbols, which is how they can appear like standard text. While they don't have dedicated keys on a stand… See more

While you could argue they're not technically symbols, emojis often pose a point of confusion for people. After all, there are hundreds of emojis to keep track of, their design… See more

We round out our discussion of discovering symbol meanings by mentioning financial symbols. They're obviously different than the symbols mentioned above, but they're still a type … See more