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161:, e.g. in the United Kingdom), but otherwise usually indicates "no", incorrectness, or failure. One of the earliest usages of a check mark as an indication of completion is on ancient Babylonian tablets "where small indentations were sometimes made with a stylus, usually placed at the left of a worker's name, presumably to indicate whether the listed ration has been issued." 153:) is a mark (✓, ✔, etc.) used in many countries, including the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct answer", "yes; this has been completed", or "yes; this applies"). The 176:
The check mark is a predominant affirmative symbol of convenience in the English-speaking world because of its instant and simple composition. In other language communities, there may be different conventions.
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As a verb, to check (off) means to add such a mark. Printed forms, printed documents, and computer software (see
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is used instead of the check mark, and the X or ✓ mark are commonly used for wrong.
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to indicate that an answer is incorrect, while "R", from the Swedish
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is also sometimes used for this purpose (most notably on election
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Version 3.2 of the Unicode Standard, General Punctuation
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keyboard, it can be produced by striking lower-case
243:In the Netherlands (and former Dutch colonies) the 221: 26:"✓" redirects here. For the similar symbol √, see 625:(in Swedish). Vol. 5. Swedish Academy. 1917. 478:The heavy check mark ✔ is available in the fonts 215: 209: 1913: 698: 273:provides various check marks, the one called 194: 185: 415:SIGNWRITING MOVEMENT-WALLPLANE CHECK MEDIUM 171: 428:SIGNWRITING MOVEMENT-WALLPLANE CHECK LARGE 402:SIGNWRITING MOVEMENT-WALLPLANE CHECK SMALL 705: 691: 583:Svensk ordbok utgiven av Svenska Akademien 251:) is used for approving a section or sum. 1851:Version of this table as a sortable list 546:Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society 16:Symbol often denoting 'yes' or 'correct' 1914: 542: 180:It is common in Swedish schools for a 686: 1703: ⟨ ⟩  677:Unicode Character U+2713 Check Mark 494:with one of these fonts in effect. 13: 543:Tenney, Jonathan S. (2011-07-12). 14: 1943: 670: 473: 222:{\displaystyle \cdot \!/\!\cdot } 77: 641: 629: 609: 605:(in Swedish). 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Index

Graduation (scale)
Radical symbol
Caron
American English
Philippine English
Indian English
Australian
New Zealand
British English
x mark
ballot papers
checkbox
commercial minus sign
O mark
flourish of approval
German
Unicode
Dingbats block
Marlett
Webdings
QWERTY
Bracket
O mark
Tally marks
Thumbs signal
X mark
Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society
doi
10.1163/ej.9789004206892.i-268
ISBN

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