Equals Sign =

U+003D

Symbol Meaning

Equals Sign represents the complete identity or equality of the values of two expressions. It is generally used in mathematics, logic, and other exact sciences. It was created in its current form in 1557, when Robert Recorde, a mathematician, implemented this sign in his work called “The Whetstone of Witte”.

This sign can be found in the Basic Latin block, while other similar symbols (Greater-Than or Equal To , Less-Than or Equal To , Not Equal To ) are located in the Mathematical Operators block.

The symbol “Equals Sign” is included in the “ASCII mathematical operators” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Unicode Name	Equals Sign
Unicode Number
Entity	=
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII mathematical operators
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 61

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	003D
Simple case change	003D
Math	+
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	3D	61	61	00111101
UTF-16BE	00 3D	0 61	61	00000000 00111101
UTF-16LE	3D 00	61 0	15616	00111101 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 3D	0 0 0 61	61	00000000 00000000 00000000 00111101
UTF-32LE	3D 00 00 00	61 0 0 0	1023410176	00111101 00000000 00000000 00000000