Characters hard to access from the keyboard can easily be retrieved from the Favorites section of the Character Viewer.
Unicode incorporates nearly 150,000 symbols, and our keyboards let us directly enter no more than several dozen—even with Shift and Option. Many of the remaining characters can be found in Character Viewer, a part of macOS that’s hidden by default.
This viewer lets you find symbols, drag them or double-click them to insert symbols into text, and mark them as favorites for later access.
You can bring up the Character Viewer (also called Emoji & Symbols) through several methods:
- On a keyboard with a 🌐, you can press that key to bring up the viewer. (See the Keyboard preference pane’s Keyboard tab if that doesn’t work—an option has to be checked for the 🌐 key.)
Read more at MacWorld.com