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Less-Than or Equivalent to HTML entity ≲
≲ is the HTML entity for Less-Than or Equivalent to ≲ (U+2272). Copy ≲, ≲ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
≲- Also written
≲≲- Code point
- U+2272
- Unicode name
- LESS-THAN OR EQUIVALENT TO
- 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: "\2272";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2272"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2272"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LESS-THAN OR EQUIVALENT TO}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%89%B2Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 89 B23 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22721 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
≲ writes U+2272 (Less-Than or Equivalent to), 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
≴Neither Less-Than Nor Equivalent to≰Neither Less-Than Nor Equal to≵Neither Greater-Than Nor Equivalent to≯Not Greater-Than≶Less-Than or Greater-Than≮Not Less-Than≷Greater-Than or Less-Than≭Not Equivalent to
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).