symbol explained
Heavy Check Mark
A thicker check mark that reads clearly at small sizes.
- Unicode
- U+2714
- HTML entity
- ✔
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The short answer
What does Heavy Check Mark mean?
A thicker check mark that reads clearly at small sizes. Pricing tables and comparison grids where the tick must stand out.
Background
Where it comes from
The heavy check mark is Unicode U+2714, part of the Dingbats block that brought printer’s ornaments into the standard. Several platforms draw it in colour as an emoji unless a text presentation selector (U+FE0E) follows it.
In conversation
How to use it
Pricing tables and comparison grids where the tick must stand out. Copy the character itself when you need plain text that can be searched, selected and pasted like a letter.
Realistic examples
Heavy Check Mark in a sentence
“Unlimited exports ✔”
“✔ Included on every plan”
“Backups ✔ · Audit log ✔”
Tone & nuance
What it communicates
Emphatic and final. The extra weight reads as a definite yes, which is why comparison tables use it for the column a reader is scanning for.
Easily confused
Characters that look like ✔
These are separate characters. However similar they render, they sort, search and compare differently — which is why pasting the wrong one is so easy to miss.
Check mark
U+2713
The lighter version. Better inside running text, where ✔ can look like bold punctuation.
Ballot X
U+2717
The matching negative mark at the same weight, and the correct partner in a comparison table.
For developers
✔ in code
Each value is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the symbol directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2714 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ✔ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ✔ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \2714 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2714} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%94 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Common questions
Heavy Check Mark FAQ
What does the heavy check mark ✔ mean?
A thicker check mark that reads clearly at small sizes. Pricing tables and comparison grids where the tick must stand out.
How do I type ✔?
The fastest way is the copy button on this page, which puts ✔ on the clipboard on its own, without a label or a stray space. To insert it by hand, use the code point U+2714. In HTML you can write ✔ instead of pasting the character. Windows Character Map and the macOS Emoji & Symbols viewer both let you search for it by name.
Will ✔ look the same everywhere?
✔ is plain text, not an image, so it takes on the font, size and colour of the words around it while keeping the code point U+2714 wherever it is pasted. A font with limited coverage can substitute a different glyph or show an empty box, and some apps restyle certain symbols as coloured emoji, so preview it in the app and theme your readers will actually use.
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