What ∍ means
It says the right-hand item belongs to the left-hand set.
Read B ∍ x as “B contains x as a member.” It expresses the same set-membership relation as x B, but puts the set first. ∍ is the smaller typographic counterpart of .
Membership notation predates ∍: mathematician Giuseppe Peano used epsilon notation for membership in 1889; Bertrand Russell introduced a stylized in 1903.
Don't confuse it with
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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
- smallni · reversed membership symbol · membership sign · set relation · ∍ meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
∍CSS
\220Dsmallni in TeX
In TeX, use
\smallni; the Unicode-oriented xunicode package also lists \textsmallowns.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
∍
HTML hex
∍
CSS content
content: "\220D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%88%8D
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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.