C Symbols

Symbol psyTeachR Term Also Known As
() (round) brackets parentheses
[] square brackets brackets
{} curly brackets squiggly brackets
<> chevrons angled brackets / guillemets
< less than
> greater than
& ampersand "and" symbol
# hash pound / octothorpe
/ slash forward slash
\ backslash
- dash hyphen / minus
_ underscore
* asterisk star
^ caret power symbol
~ tilde twiddle / squiggle
= equal sign
== double equal sign
. full stop period / point
! exclamation mark bang / not
? question mark
' single quote quote / apostrophe
" double quote quote
%>% pipe magrittr pipe
| vertical bar pipe
, comma
; semi-colon
: colon
@ "at" symbol various hilarious regional terms