Prescription Take ℞
Symbol Meaning
In English the abbreviation “Rx” is commonly written on medicine that can only be sold with a doctor's prescription. Such an abbreviation can be found in drug instructions and packaging, pharmaceutical and dispensing documents, medical textbooks, and patient brochures.
Unicode has a special symbol called “Prescription Take” that consists of a capital Latin “R” and a small letter “x” combined into a smart-looking symbol. It looks original and remarkable in text, so there’s no chance a person reading the paper will miss some important information about the prescription required. The symbol belongs to the Letterlike Symbols2100–214F block.
The symbol “Prescription Take” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
recipe, cross ratio.
| Unicode Name | Prescription Take |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ℞ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 211E |
| Simple case change | 211E |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 9E | 226 132 158 | 14845086 | 11100010 10000100 10011110 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 1E | 33 30 | 8478 | 00100001 00011110 |
| UTF-16LE | 1E 21 | 30 33 | 7713 | 00011110 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 1E | 0 0 33 30 | 8478 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00011110 |
| UTF-32LE | 1E 21 00 00 | 30 33 0 0 | 505479168 | 00011110 00100001 00000000 00000000 |