Equals Sign =

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U+003D
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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
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity =
Unicode Block Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock ASCII mathematical operators
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Version 1.1
Block Basic Latin
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 003D
Simple case change 003D
Math +
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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
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