Basic Analog Electronic Symbols Electronic Symbols

Resistors

Capacitors

Diodes

Fuses

Ground or GND

Inductor or Coil

Lamp

Meters

Operational Amplifier or Op-Amp

Oscillator Crystal

Silicon Controlled Rectifier or SCR

Switch

Designator

Component Type

AT

Attenuator

BR

Bridge rectifier

BT

Battery

Capacitor

CN

Capacitor network

Diode (including zeners, thyristors and LEDs)

DL

Delay line

DS

Display

Fuse

FB or FEB

Ferrite bead

FD

Fiducial

Jack connector (female)

JP

Link (Jumper)

Relay

Inductor

LS

Loudspeaker or buzzer

Motor

MK

Microphone

MP

Mechanical part (including screws and fasteners)

Plug connector (male)

PS

Power supply

Transistor (all types)

Resistor

RN

Resistor network

RT

Thermistor

RV

Varistor

Switch (all types, including push-buttons)

Transformer

TC

Thermocouple

TUN

Tuner

Component name abbreviations widely

TP

Test point

used in industry: AE: aerial,

Integrated circuit

antenna B: battery BR: bridge

Vacuum Tube

rectifier

VR

Variable Resistor (potentiometer or rheostat)

C: capacitor CRT:cathode

Transducer not matching any other category

ray tube D or CR: diode DSP:digital

Crystal or oscillator

signal processor Z Zener Diode transistor GDT: gas discharge tube IC: integrated circuit J: wire link ("jumper") JFET: junction gate field-effect transistor L: inductor LCD:Liquid crystal display LDR: light dependent resistor LED: light emitting diode LS: speaker M: motor MCB: circuit breaker Mic: microphone MOSFET:Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor Ne: neon lamp OP: Operational Amplifier PCB: printed circuit board PU: pickup Q: transistor R: resistor F: fuse FET:field effect

RLA: RY: relay SCR: silicon controlled rectifier SW: switch T: transformer TFT:thin film transistor(display) TH: thermistor TP: test point Tr: transistor U: integrated circuit V: valve (tube) VC: variable capacitor VFD: vacuum fluorescent display VLSI:very large scale integration VR: variable resistor X: crystal, ceramic resonator XMER: transformer XTAL: crystal Z or ZD: Zener diode

Resistors

Resistor: American (top) and IEC (bottom)

Potentiometer: American

[edit]Capacitors

Capacitor

Capacitor, polarized (American)

Capacitor, variable

[edit]Transistors

NPN transistor

PNP transistor

n-channel junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET)

p-channel junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET)

Field-effect transistor

[edit]Diodes

Diode

Zener diode

Tunnel diode

Schottky diode

Light Emitting Diode (LED)

Photodiode

Varicap

[edit]Vacuum tubes

Vacuum tube diode

Vacuum tube triode

Vacuum tube tetrode

Vacuum tube pentode

[edit]Switches

Switch, Single Pole/Single Throw (SPST)

Switch, Single Pole/Double Throw (SPDT)

Switch, Double Pole/Double Throw (DPDT)

[edit]Miscellaneous

Batteries, single cell, multi-cell

Inductor

Transformer, with center tap

Silicon-controlled rectifier

Fuse: IEC (top) and American (lower two)

Phone jacks