What ⧜ means
It is a specialist sign for incomplete infinity. Unicode cross-references it to ; MathML 3 marks it as infix, meaning it sits between expressions.
“Broken infinity” is an informal name for this math symbol, not a rendering fault. In a 2014 MathML discussion, one contributor recalled seeing it in 19th-century treatises and early-20th-century texts on uncountable infinity, with use fading after the 1950s.
A blank or box means the font or app cannot display the glyph.
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 ⧜
- Also called
- broken infinity
- Search it as
- iinfin · incomplete infinity LaTeX
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⧜CSS
\29DCLaTeX with STIX
Load STIX and use
\iinfin in math mode.HTML
Use
⧜ or ⧜ with ISOtech-derived entity sets.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⧜
HTML hex
⧜
CSS content
content: "\29DC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A7%9C
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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.