: What are the symmetry-in-pair symbols usually appear in Wingdings fonts? For example, in Wingdings font: What is the symbols in boxes used for? I have checked the wiki pages of Wingdings,

@Ravi4787994

They're typographic ornaments. The Wikipedia article on fleurons offers a good explanation of their use.


A fleuron is a typographic element, or glyph, used either as a
punctuation mark or as an ornament for typographic compositions.
Fleurons are stylized forms of flowers or leaves. Robert Bringhurst in
The Elements of Typographic Style calls the forms "horticultural
dingbats." It is also known as a printers' flower, or more formally
as an aldus leaf hedera leaf, or simply hedera (ivy leaf) symbol.


There are names assigned to all Wingdings symbols, here are the ones you've highlighted (one from each set for the sake of brevity):


budleafne
vineleafboldne
quiltsquare2
leafccwsw


They are included in the Ornamental Dingbats Unicode block (PDF) and described slightly differently there.


NORTH EAST POINTING BUD
HEAVY NORTH EAST POINTING VINE LEAF
SOLID QUILT SQUARE ORNAMENT
TURNED SOUTH WEST POINTING LEAF

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