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Equal to or Precedes HTML entity ⋞
⋞ is the HTML entity for Equal to or Precedes ⋞ (U+22DE). Copy ⋞, ⋞ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⋞- Also written
⋞- Code point
- U+22DE
- Unicode name
- EQUAL TO OR PRECEDES
- Block
- Mathematical Operators
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- 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: "\22DE";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u22DE"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u22de"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{EQUAL TO OR PRECEDES}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%8B%9EPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8B 9E3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22DE1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⋞ writes U+22DE (Equal to or Precedes), a maths symbol from the Unicode Mathematical Operators block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. For more than a symbol or two, MathML, supported in all major browsers since 2023, gives proper maths spacing and layout.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
More maths operators
⋠Does Not Precede or Equal⋚Less-Than Equal to or Greater-Than⋡Does Not Succeed or Equal⋙Very Much Greater-Than⋢Not Square Image of or Equal to⋘Very Much Less-Than⋣Not Square Original of or Equal to⋗Greater-Than with Dot
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).