∞♾️ Infinity symbol

Infinity symbol	♾	∞	Ꝏ	ꝏ	ထ

Copy and paste infinity symbol text ∞, or infinity emoji ♾️, also known as forever symbol or look below how to type infinity sign via keyboard.

What does infinity symbol mean?

Infinity symbol created by John Wallis in 1655 refers to things without any limit, ad infinitum, perpetual. Usually is used in mathematics or physics to express that some things have no limit. For example, set of natural numbers has no limit and could be expressed by infinity ∞ sign. Infinity is designated as the ∞ symbol because it was imagined as a special variation of ouroborus snake - an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon biting its own tail.

How to type infinity symbol

Choose your system to find out.

Windows

From Keyboard

Alt Code for Infinity sign

Alt Codes

Shortcut technique that works on Desktops and most Laptops running MS Windows. You press Alt and, while holding it, type a code on Num Pad while it's turned on. Please, read a guide if you're running a laptop. You can type many frequently used symbols with this method.

Alt code	Symbol
236	∞

Shift States

Shift states for Windows symbols

Configure your keyboard layout in Windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text. Takes about 5-10 minutes to set things up, but you'll be typing like a boss. You can assign infinity symbol ∞ and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.

Character Map

MS Windows Character map

CharMap allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. You can input infinity symbol using it.

Mac

Emoji on iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch)

Text Symbols with iPhone Emoji keyboard 📲Simple and beautiful way to discover how to add a virtual keyboard for Emoji symbols visible as small pictures. The keyboard itself is preinstalled on your iOS device, so you don't have to download, or buy anything.

Keyboard viewer

You can make frequently used technical non-fancy symbols like "√ ∑ π ∞ ∆ ™ © æ £ ¢" and åccénted letters on Mac using [Option] key. I've compiled a list of shortcuts in my article and explained how to open keyboard viewer. You can also use your Keyboard Viewer as an alternative to my list.

[Option] + [5] produces ∞ infinity sign.

Character Palette

Character Palette allows you to view and use all characters and symbols, including infinity, available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer.

Apple Mac OS X Character Viewer

Linux

From Keyboard

Linux keyboard shortcuts for text symbols

Unicode hex code	Symbol
221E	∞

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. But only third and fourth level chooser keys and unicode hex codes can produce infinity text symbol.

Character map

Linux Character maps

Character map allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. It can also help you lookup Unicode codes for entering symbols with keyboard.

HTML code

Following is a list of HTML and JavaScript entities for infinity symbol. In Javascript you should write like a = "this \u2669 symbol" if you want to include a special symbol in a string.

HTML entity	JS entity	Symbol
∞	\u221e	∞