What ⪻ means
It marks one item as coming before another. The formula’s definitions say what that relation requires; the second stroke alone does not define a stricter order than ≺.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⪻ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⪻
- Search it as
- ⪻ meaning · mathematical relation · precedes relation · LaTeX \Prec · HTML entity Pr · ⪼ mirror
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⪻CSS
\2ABBHTML
As of 2026, HTML uses the named character reference
⪻ (capital P) for ⪻; lowercase ≺ gives the different character ≺.LaTeX with `stix2`
To type ⪻ in LaTeX, use
\Prec in math mode with the stix2 package; other setups depend on their math font.Unicode math font
Insert
⪻ in a math font that contains this glyph.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⪻
HTML hex
⪻
CSS content
content: "\2ABB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AA%BB
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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.