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✓ (English symbol name tick or checkmark or check)
- Indicates an item (especially in a list) that is fulfilled or dealt with, e.g., products in a grocery list that were already bought.
Milk ✓
Eggs
Flour ✓
2007, Steve Anderson, Meet the Robinsons (in English), Walt Disney Pictures:Things to do:
☑ Steal time machine
☑ Ruin science fair
☑ Pass off invention as my own!
2023 March 7, Gretty Garcia, “Yes, I *Did* Stay at the Same Hotel as Beyoncé in Dubai—and You Should Too”, in Cosmopolitan[1] (in English):Now that I’ve officially recovered from my epic experience, I can confirm that, yes, every single celeb and influencer imaginable was there to check out the hotel’s opening weekend (Chloe and Halle Bailey? ✔️ Ellen Pompeo? ✔️ Kendall Jenner? ✔️✔️✔️ I mean, did you not see the pics?!).
2023 May 12, Lia Mappoura, “I tried Glossier's brand new G Suit lip crèmes so you don't have to – you're welcome”, in Cosmopolitan[2] (in English):I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.
- Indicates one's preference or vote. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with a checkmark: ☑.
- Synonym: ✗
- ☐ Candidate 1
- ☐ Candidate 2
- ☑ Candidate 3
- Indicates correctness (with the exception of some languages, in which it is used with the opposite meaning).
- Antonym: ✗ (“indicates incorrectness”)
- 2+2=4 ✓
- 2+2=5 ✗
- Used as a tally mark.
- 2015, "Sleep Spells", season 1, episode 7b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
- [Star saves Marco's life.]
- Marco: Thanks for saving me. Again, that makes twenty-eight saves for you, and four for me, but... Who's counting?
- [The checkmarks below are written on Marco's notebook.]
- [Star's face] ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
- [Marco's face] ✓✓✓✓
- (computing, dated) ISO 2047 symbol for Acknowledge.
- See also Appendix:Strikethrough for crossed text as in
example, which also indicates items already dealt with.