How to read keyboard symbols 海外投资A股2021-04-09 17:33:10

~

tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to computer-illiterate people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy"

!

exclamation; commonly read as bang in computer shell programming as in #!/bin/sh

@

at

#

pound; but commonly read as shee in computer shell programming as in #!/bin/sh, not sure why

$

dollar

%

percent

^

caret; not many people know this word so be prepared to say "no, not carrot; it's the character above 6, an arrow pointing up"

&

ampersand

*

star; some read asterisk

(

opening parenthesis (some may shorten it saying paren)

)

closing parenthesis

_

underscore; once I heard people say underbar

+

plus

-

minus, hyphen; as symbol before arguments in commands, some people including me read dash, easier to say one syllable

=

equals

`

backtick or backquote

{

opening brace

}

closing brace

[

opening bracket

]

closing bracket

|

pipe or vertical bar

backslash; be prepared to explain to some computer-illiterate people

:

colon

;

semicolon

"

double quote

'

single quote

< 

less than; some may read left angle bracket

> 

greater than

,

comma

.

dot; period if in English text

?

question mark

/

slash or forward slash; some computer-illiterate people may be confused about / and

space

(), [] and {}

may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I never like this. Open and closing may also be called left and right.