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Identical To HTML entity ≡
≡ is the HTML entity for Identical To ≡ (U+2261). Copy the decimal ≡ and hex ≡ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
≡- Also written
≡- Code point
- U+2261
- Unicode name
- IDENTICAL 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: "\2261";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2261"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2261"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{IDENTICAL TO}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%89%A1Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 89 A13 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22611 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
Identical to: used for definitions, identities and congruence in modular arithmetic (a ≡ b mod n).
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More maths operators
≤Less-Than or Equal To≟Questioned Equal to≥Greater-Than or Equal To≜Delta Equal to≦Less-Than over Equal to≚Equiangular to≧Greater-Than over Equal to≙Estimates
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).