Estimated Symbol ℮
Symbol Meaning
The lowercase letter “e” is often seen on the packaging of cosmetic products labeled according to the standards of the European Union. This letter is called “Estimated Sign” or “E-mark”. The symbol indicates the exact correspondence of the declared weight or volume of the product to the actual values. According to labeling rules, only grams (for solid, powdered substances) or milliliters (for liquids) can be used as units of weight and volume.
This symbol differs in appearance from regular Latin and Cyrillic letters “e”. You can use it on your labels and stickers, in product cards on your website, in informational articles about symbolic designations.
The symbol “Estimated Symbol” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Estimated Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| 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 | 212E |
| Simple case change | 212E |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_ID_Start | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 AE | 226 132 174 | 14845102 | 11100010 10000100 10101110 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 2E | 33 46 | 8494 | 00100001 00101110 |
| UTF-16LE | 2E 21 | 46 33 | 11809 | 00101110 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 2E | 0 0 33 46 | 8494 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00101110 |
| UTF-32LE | 2E 21 00 00 | 46 33 0 0 | 773914624 | 00101110 00100001 00000000 00000000 |