What ⩨ means
Their names mark different relations. Unicode names “equal and parallel to,” so it uses “equal” where ⩨ uses “identical.” It also links , named “identical to and slanted parallel,” which specifies a slanted parallel relation.
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.
How to type or find ⩨
- Also called
- Identical and parallel to
- Search it as
- triple bar double vertical stroke · parallel relation symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⩨CSS
\2A68Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⩨
HTML hex
⩨
CSS content
content: "\2A68";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A9%A8
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.



