Mac Tip of the Year: Insert Unicode Characters

Want to insert ⌘, ⇧, or some other weird character on Mac?
Press ⌃⌘Space (slow motion instant replay: Control-Command-Space) and the pop-up window will appear:

It has several character categories. Click on the icons in the bottom row to choose a category.

Emojis:

Panda emojis:

Strange-looking symbols:

And so on.

To insert a character/emoji in the text - just click on it.

Also, when pop-up window is active, you can start typing to search for a character by its name:

⇧⌫↑⌘ℬ〶❋

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