# \dagger

Used for dagger symbols in running text, footnote markers, and textual annotations

https://texform.dev/latex/commands/dagger

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Topic | [Miscellaneous symbols](https://texform.dev/latex/topics/miscellaneous) |
| Packages | textmacros |
| Allowed mode | text |
| Tags |  |
| Commonality | medium |
| Kind | prefix |

## Syntax

### textmacros

Argument specification: ``

Used for dagger symbols in running text, footnote markers, and textual annotations

## Common tasks

### How to write a Hermitian adjoint

In math this is the dagger symbol; the command page is the textmacros glyph.

```latex
A^{\dagger}
```

[Open in Playground](https://play.texform.dev/?input=A%5E%7B%5Cdagger%7D)

### How to write a footnote-like dagger in text

```latex
\text{see note\dagger}
```

[Open in Playground](https://play.texform.dev/?input=%5Ctext%7Bsee+note%5Cdagger%7D)

### How to write a dagger as a binary operator

```latex
a \dagger b
```

[Open in Playground](https://play.texform.dev/?input=a+%5Cdagger+b)

## Examples

```latex
\text{\dagger}
```

[Open in Playground](https://play.texform.dev/?input=%5Ctext%7B%5Cdagger%7D)

## Renderer support

| Package | MathJax | KaTeX | XeTeX |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| textmacros | full | none | none |

## Usage frequency

1.10% of formulas in the measured corpus contain this entry, rank 46 of 263 entries with frequency data.

## In TeXForm

TeXForm parses this entry as prefix syntax; the package determines its argument specification.

## Equivalent forms

```latex
†
```

exact. MathJax's text parser inserts this Unicode character directly.

## See also

- [\\AA](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/AA)
- [\\ddagger](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/ddagger)
- [\\ldots](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/ldots)
- [\\S](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/S)
- [\\vdots](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/vdots)
- [\\dagger](https://texform.dev/latex/symbols/dagger)

## Test cases

### textmacros

| Input | Case | MathJax | KaTeX | XeTeX |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| \dagger | Positive: baseline | Pass | Fail | Fail |