Hermitian or Dagger Symbol in LaTeX – † or ‡

The dagger symbol is also known as Hermitian in Mathematics. Whatever we call it the symbol is the same.

We can write dagger with various commands.

Dagger symbol – LaTeX

Here I am giving an example, where you can see all the commands at once.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Dagger symbol: $\dagger$ 

Dagger symbol: $\dag$ 

Dagger symbol: \textdagger
\end{document}

Output:

Note: If \textdagger command does not work, then include this \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

We generally use asterisk (*) symbol for footnotes but if we need to use an alternate symbol for that then we can go for this dagger symbol.

In biology and pharmacology, we use the dagger symbol to indicate instinct species.

In math, we can use this to show Hermitian matrix and conjugate transpose matrix.

Double Dagger (diesis) in LaTeX

The double dagger symbol is also known as diesis.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Double Dagger symbol: $\ddagger$ 

Double Dagger symbol: $\ddag$ 

Double Dagger symbol: \textdaggerdbl
\end{document}

Output: