✓
See also: √
✓ - Translingual
Symbol
✓
- Indicates items in a list that were already dealt with, e.g., products in a grocery list that were already bought.
- Milk ✓
- Eggs
- Flour ✓
- Indicates one's preference or vote. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with a checkmark: ☑.
- ☐ Candidate 1
- ☐ Candidate 2
- ☑ Candidate 3
- Indicates correctness (with the exception of some languages, in which it is used with the opposite meaning). See also: ✗ (“indicates wrongness”).
- 2+2=4 ✓
- 2+2=5 ✗
- Used as a tally mark.
- (computing, dated) ISO 2047 symbol for Acknowledge.
Usage notes
Synonyms
- See also Strikethrough for crossed text as in
example, which also indicates items already dealt with. - ✗ (“indicates one's preference or vote”)
Antonyms
- ✗ (“indicates incorrectness”)