What ⊜ means
In math, follow the notation key; on a license, it means NoDerivatives.
Creative Commons adopted ⊜ as its NoDerivatives symbol in 2002. The same mark appears in CC BY-ND and CC BY-NC-ND. In 2018, Unicode approved adding a note that ⊜ marks this Creative Commons condition.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsNoDerivatives: the original may be shared, but adapted versions may not.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Circled Cc
Unicode directly links this circled Creative Commons license mark to ⊜.
Circled Human Figure
Another Creative Commons mark, for giving credit to the creator.
Circled Dollar Sign With Overlaid Backslash
The set's NonCommercial mark can be combined with ⊜ in CC BY-NC-ND.
Circled Anticlockwise Arrow
Creative Commons ShareAlike mark; licenses never pair it with ⊜, since NoDerivatives forbids adaptations.
Combination ideas
1No derivatives: share as is, don’t modify.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⊜ look different across fonts?
The standardized sequence requests an equal sign touching the circle. With plain ⊜, fonts may leave a gap.
More like this
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Collections with ⊜
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How to type or find ⊜
- Search it as
- NoDerivatives symbol · CC BY-ND · CC BY-NC-ND
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⊜
HTML hex
⊜
CSS content
content: "\229C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8A%9C
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.