~

Printable ASCII characters
~	!	@	#	$	%	^	&	*	(	)	_	+	space
`	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	-	=	{	}	|
	Qq	Ww	Ee	Rr	Tt	Yy	Uu	Ii	Oo	Pp	:	"	[	]	\
	Aa	Ss	Dd	Ff	Gg	Hh	Jj	Kk	Ll	?	;	'	Ctrl
	Zz	Xx	Cc	Vv	Bb	Nn	Mm	,	.	/	<	>	Alt

In NetHack, the tilde (~) serves the following purposes:

• ~ is the tail of a long worm.
• ~ represents the vibrating square.

• In a menu, pressing ~ inverts the selection on the current page.

Historical uses

In Hack 1.0 only, the lurker above uses the ~ glyph.

In NetHack 3.0.0, the long worm tail is given its current representative glyph. The vibrating square is given the tilde glyph in NetHack 3.6.1.