If you are newbie in mac, learning the keyboard symbols that appear in the menus and what keys they stand for is essential for accessing various shortcuts.
You see them on a lot of Mac keyboards and on plenty of keyboard shortcut lists, looking like strange glyphs (⌥), shapes (⇪), and bugs splattered on windshields (⌘). They can be fairly confusing.
Here is the Full Keyboard Symbol List for mac:
⌘ is command
⌥ is option
⌃ is control
⇧ is shift
⇪ is caps lock
← is left arrow
→ is right arrow
↑ is up arrow
↓ is down arrow
⇥ is tab
⇤ is backtab
↩ is return
⌤ is enter
⌫ is delete
⌦ is forward delete
⇞ is page up
⇟ is page down
↖ is home
↘ is end
⌧ is clear
␣ is space
⎋ is escape
⏏ is eject
You can type the European Currency symbol (€) with Option + Shift + 2
Option+Shift+8 produced one like this: Temperature Symbol: 85°
Option+K types a symbol like this: Degree Symbol: 24˚
Mac Keyboard Symbols