What ⨔ means
It marks a path that leaves the pole out.
A line integral adds up a quantity along a curve. ⨒ and ⨓ are related operators for other paths around a pole.
Where did the name npolint appear?
It first appeared in a MathML character table.
In 1998, MathML listed the entity under ISOTECH, a set of ISO technical symbols, and mapped it to U+E399, a private-use code point without a standard character meaning. Unicode later assigned ⨔.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⨔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2A14, then Alt+X to get ⨔.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “line integration not including the pole”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2a14, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⨔CSS
\2A14HTML
In HTML, use `⨔`; the HTML Standard checked on 2026-10-08 resolves it to ⨔.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⨔
HTML hex
⨔
CSS content
content: "\2A14";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A8%94
1
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.