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Almost Equal To HTML entity ≈
≈ is the HTML entity for Almost Equal To ≈ (U+2248). Copy the decimal ≈ and hex ≈ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
≈- Also written
≈≈≈≈≈- Code point
- U+2248
- Unicode name
- ALMOST EQUAL TO
- Block
- Mathematical Operators
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ≈Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ≈Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ≈Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2248";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2248"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2248"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{ALMOST EQUAL TO}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%89%88Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 89 883 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22481 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
Almost equal to, for approximations such as π ≈ 3.14. HTML 4 named it ≈; HTML5 added ≈ and ≈ for the same character.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More maths operators
≊Almost Equal or Equal to≆Approximately But Not Actually Equal to≋Triple Tilde≅Approximately Equal to≌All Equal to≄Not Asymptotically Equal to≍Equivalent to≃Asymptotically Equal to
All maths operators · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text
Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).