# token-symbols (/docs/query/token-symbols)

`Client.connect` runs this automatically (through a disk cache) and
installs the result as the connection's display symbols, so balances
decoded by that client render with each subnet's real symbol.

**Category:** Subnets

## Parameters [#parameters]

This read takes no parameters.

## CLI [#cli]

```bash
btcli query token-symbols --json
```

## Python [#python]

```python
import bittensor as sub

async with sub.Client("finney") as client:
    result = await client.read("token_symbols")
```