Check mark


A check mark, checkmark or tick is a mark used to indicate the concept "yes". The x mark is also sometimes used for this purpose, but otherwise usually indicates "no", incorrectness, or failure.
As a verb, to check or tick, means to add such a mark. Printed forms, printed documents, and computer software, commonly include squares in which to place check marks.

International differences

The check mark is a predominant affirmative symbol of convenience in the English-speaking world because of its instant and simple composition. In other countries, however, the mark is more complicated.
It is common in Swedish schools for a to indicate that an answer is incorrect, while "R", from the Swedish rätt, i.e., "correct", is used to indicate that an answer is correct.
In Finnish, ✓ stands for väärin, i.e., "wrong", due to its similarity to a slanted v. The opposite, "correct", is marked with, a slanted vertical line emphasized with two dots.
In Japan and Korea, the O mark is used instead of the check mark, and the X or ✓ mark are commonly used for wrong.
In the Netherlands a 'V' is used to show that things are missing while the flourish of approval is used for approving a section or sum.
In Britain, the check mark is commonly called a tick.

Unicode

The "Symbol, Other" category of Unicode provides various check marks:
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