键盘上字符的英文名称

键盘上字符的英文名称 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 case of #!/bin/sh @ at pound; but commonly read as shee in case of #!/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; 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 may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I (), [] and {} never like this. Open and Closing may also be called left and right.