What ⋝ means
It allows equality or a greater value on the left. Read from left to right: in x ⋝ 4, x can be 4 or greater.
Is ⋝ the same as ?
Yes. ⋝ and express the same comparison in two forms. In ordinary formulas, is the familiar notation.
When did ⋝ first appear?
The recorded milestones concern related signs, not ⋝ itself.
< and > appear in a work published in 1631. John Wallis used inequality signs with bars above them in 1670; Pierre Bouguer used forms with bars below in 1734. These are milestones in the wider history of comparison notation.
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
- ⋝ · ≥ · greater than or equal sign · at least sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⋝\22DDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.