MAC OS Keymap Symbols meaning & Shortcuts

Here u'll find some basic mac shortcuts & their meaning.
*Such obvious operations like, open/new/find/copy/paste & navigate through text are not covered here.

Shortcut Symbols

Hot Key	Action
⌘	Command
⌃	Control
⌥	Option(Alt)
⇧	Shift
⇪	Caps Lock
⇥	Tab
↖︎ or ⌂ /↘︎	Home/End
⇞/⇟	PageUp/PageDown
⌫/⌦	BackSpace/Delete
⏎ or ↩︎	Return
⌅	Enter
⎋	Escape
fn	Function

Small Keyboard

Hot Key	Action
⌂ equals fn←	Home
⌦ equals ⌘⌫	Delete

Some Useful ones

Hot Key	Action
⌃ ←/→	Navigate via Opened Screens
⌘ Esc	Toggle app Full Screen mode
⌘ M	Minimize (only if not in Full Screen mode)
⌘ ⌥ M	Minimize all windows of active desctop
⌘ Q	Quit application
⌘ W	Just to close an active window of application
⌘ ]/[	Switch language
⌘ Tab	Switch between opened applications
⌘ `	Switch between different windows of the same application
⌘⌥4 or ⌘⌥⌃4	Screenshot selection to file or to clipboard (or press the spacebar to capture just a window)
⌘ ⌥ Esc	Choose Application to ForceQuit
⌘ ⇧ ⌥ Esc (3sec.)	Force Quit the front-most app
⌘ ⇧ Q	Logout User
⌘ ⇧ ⌥ Q	Logout User Immediately
⌃ Power	Show he restart / sleep / shut down dialog
⌘ ⌃ Power	Restart computer
⌘ ⌥ Power	Put the mac to Sleep
⌘ ⌥ ⌃ Power	Quit all apps (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then shut down the computer.

Some Symbols

Hot Key	Action
⌥ G	©
⌥ R	®
⌥ 2	™
⌥ 5	∞
⌥ 6	§
⌥ X	≈
⌥ O	ø
⌥ ⇧ 2	€
⌥ ⇧ K	

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