What ⪗ means
It marks a specialized equal-to-or-less-than relation. Its slanted form identifies the relation family, while the definition in a particular formula supplies the exact rule.
In 2000, a proposal led by STIX, a mathematical-font project, assembled this sign with related slanted, dotted, and double-line relations. It targeted scientific publishing, math software, and MathML, the markup language used to exchange equations on the web.
Specialist mathematical notation.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⪗ look different in different fonts?
The dot's size and position, and the relation's slant, vary with a font's math design. The encoded character stays the same.
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How to type or find ⪗
- Also called
- elsdot
- Search it as
- slanted less-than · equal-to-or-less-than dot · math relation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⪗CSS
\2A97Julia
To type
\elsdot in Julia, press Tab after the command in Julia's Unicode input.TeX
Use
\elsdot with a Unicode-math setup that defines the command.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⪗
HTML hex
⪗
CSS content
content: "\2A97";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AA%97
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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.