What ⪊ means
The left expression is greater than the right, without approximation.
MathML lists it as an infix relation, meaning the sign goes between the two expressions it compares.
Is ⪊ the same as ?
No; allows “greater than or roughly equal,” while ⪊ rules out that reading.
What do gnap and gnapprox mean?
They are MathML markup names for the same relation.
In a 1998 MathML draft, both appeared beside E411, a code from an area reserved for private assignments; it served as a stand-in before the relation received its standard Unicode character.
Related characters
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Less-Than And Not Approximate
The less-than counterpart to ⪊: it reverses the comparison direction while keeping the same “not approximately equal” qualification.
Greater-Than Or Approximate
This means “greater than or approximately equal.” It shares ⪊’s greater-than direction but allows a near-equality reading.
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 ⪊
- Also called
- gnap · gnapprox
- Search it as
- greater than not approximate · greater than or approximate
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⪊CSS
\2A8ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⪊
HTML hex
⪊
CSS content
content: "\2A8A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AA%8A
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.