Almost Equal To ≈

≈

U+2248

Symbol Meaning

Almost Equal To. Mathematical Operators.

The symbol “Almost Equal To” is included in the “Relations” subblock of the “Mathematical Operators” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Synonyms

asymptotic to.

Unicode Name	Almost Equal To
Unicode Number
Entity	≈
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Mathematical Operators
Unicode Subblock	Relations
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 247(English Keyboard Layout)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2248
Simple case change	2248
Math	+
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 89 88	226 137 136	14846344	11100010 10001001 10001000
UTF-16BE	22 48	34 72	8776	00100010 01001000
UTF-16LE	48 22	72 34	18466	01001000 00100010
UTF-32BE	00 00 22 48	0 0 34 72	8776	00000000 00000000 00100010 01001000
UTF-32LE	48 22 00 00	72 34 0 0	1210187776	01001000 00100010 00000000 00000000