Telegram Symbols

Paper-plane arrows, name frames, trend letters and dividers for your Telegram name, bio and channel posts. They go in your display name, because an @username only takes a-z, 0-9 and underscores.

Telegram symbols go in the places that show your personality: your display name, your bio, group titles and channel posts. This page groups them by job. Arrowheads that echo Telegram's paper-plane logo, frames like ꧁ ꧂ that wrap a name, the rare letters behind the "symbol on Telegram" name trend, and dividers and bullets that make a long channel post easy to scan.

Logo Lookalikes

Paper-Plane and Telegram Logo Lookalikes

Unicode has no Telegram logo, so channel names borrow its paper-plane shape from arrowheads and aircraft.

Three-D Top-Lighted Rightwards Arrowhead
Three-D Bottom-Lighted Rightwards Arrowhead
Black Rightwards Arrowhead
Conical Taper
Symmetry
Airplane
Small Airplane
Incoming Envelope
Name Frames

Frames and Wings for Your Telegram Name

Paste one on each side of your first name, like ꧁ Alex ꧂ or 『 Alex 』. Always paste them as a pair so the name looks balanced.

Javanese Left Rerenggan
Javanese Right Rerenggan
Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyon
Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyas
Left White Corner Bracket
Right White Corner Bracket
Left Black Lenticular Bracket
Right Black Lenticular Bracket
Adi Shakti
Black Chess Queen
CJK Ideograph 4E42
Katakana Letter Tu
Trend Letters

Rare Letters From the "Symbol on Telegram" Trend

Letters from Batak, Vai, Buginese and other scripts that the name trend uses as decoration. Each name notes the script it comes from.

Batak Letter Simalungun Ra
Vai Syllable Za
Vai Syllable Jee
Vai Syllable Bo
Buginese Letter La
Oriya Letter Gha
Lepcha Letter Bla
Cham Letter Ai
White Sesame Dot
Bowtie
Viewdata Square
Inverted Pentagram
East Syriac Cross
Stars & Hearts

Stars, Sparkles and Hearts

Small accents for a bio or a display name. One or two is plenty in a 70-character bio.

Black Star
White Star
Black Four Pointed Star
White Four Pointed Star
Stress Outlined White Star
Star Operator
White Concave-Sided Diamond
Hermitian Conjugate Matrix
Sparkles
White Heart Suit
Black Heart Suit
Last Quarter Moon
Black Florette
Post Markers

Bullets and Markers for Channel Posts

Channel posts are long and read on a phone. Start each line with a marker and readers can skim the list.

Bullet
White Bullet
Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle
White Right-Pointing Small Triangle
Heavy Round-Tipped Rightwards Arrow
Rightwards Arrow
Check Mark
White Heavy Check Mark
Cross Mark
Pushpin
Public Address Loudspeaker
Bell
High Voltage
Dividers

Dividers for Channel Posts and Group Descriptions

Each button copies the whole line. Use them between sections of a post, not in a bio, where they eat most of the character limit.

Heavy Line Divider
Light Line Divider
Dashed Line Divider
Block Bar Divider
Diamond Chain Divider
Dotted Link Divider
Combos

Ready-Made Telegram Name and Channel Combos

Copy a finished decoration in one click. The Javanese wing frame leaves a gap in the middle for your name.

Javanese Wing Frame
Tibetan Cross Frame
Batak Star Tag
Bow Tag
Falling Star Trail
Paper Plane Pointer
Announcement Header
Where They Work

Where Telegram Accepts Symbols, and Where It Doesn't

Your first and last name, your bio, group titles and channel names all take any Unicode character, so everything on this page pastes straight in. Your @username does not. Telegram only allows the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and underscores there, so put the decoration in your display name instead. That is the name people see in chats anyway.

The bio is where space runs out. Telegram caps it at 70 characters, or 140 with Premium, and every symbol counts against that. A long divider can use a sixth of it, so keep bio decoration to one or two characters and save dividers for channel posts.

Premium custom emoji are a different thing. They are images from Telegram's own emoji packs, not Unicode characters, so they only display inside Telegram. Copy a message that contains them into another app and each one turns into the ordinary emoji it was built on. To style the letters themselves, use the Telegram font generator.

The Name Trend

The "Symbol on Telegram" Name Trend

Much of the search for Telegram symbols comes from a TikTok trend: rewriting your name so each letter becomes a rare character from another script, such as ᯓ from Batak or ꕤ from Vai. To convert a whole name at once, use the Name to Symbols converter. The frames and combos above are for dressing up the result.

Rare scripts carry one risk. A phone without a font for Batak or Vai shows an empty box instead of the letter. Before you set a new name, send it to your own Saved Messages and open it on a second device. The frames, stars and dividers on this page come from blocks that almost every phone can display.

Sources

Telegram's client configuration reference sets the bio limit at 70 characters for regular accounts and 140 for Premium accounts. Telegram's FAQ states that a username can use a-z, 0-9 and underscores.

Frequently Asked Questions

Telegram Symbols, Answered

Can I put symbols in my Telegram username?

No. A Telegram @username only accepts the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and underscores. Put symbols in your first or last name instead, which is what other people see in chats.

Is there a Telegram logo symbol I can copy?

No, Unicode has no character for Telegram's paper-plane logo. The closest lookalikes are the arrowheads ➢ and ➤, the conical taper ⌲ and the airplane ✈.

Why does my Telegram name show empty boxes on a friend's phone?

Their phone has no font for that character, which happens most with rare scripts like Batak and Vai. Send the name to your Saved Messages and check it on another device before you set it.

How many symbols fit in a Telegram bio?

A Telegram bio holds 70 characters, or 140 with Premium, and every symbol counts toward that total. Keep bio decoration to one or two symbols and leave the rest for text.

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