Precedes Above Single-Line Equals Sign Plus Combining Long Solidus Overlay HTML entity &npre;

&npre; is the HTML entity for Precedes Above Single-Line Equals Sign Plus Combining Long Solidus Overlay ⪯̸ (U+2AAF U+0338). Copy the decimal.

Entity: &npre;
Also written: &NotPrecedesEqual; &npreceq;
Code points: U+2AAF U+0338
Unicode name: PRECEDES ABOVE SINGLE-LINE EQUALS SIGN + COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY
Block: Supplemental Mathematical Operators
Category: Math symbol (Sm)
Since: Unicode 3.2
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&npre;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`⪯̸`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`⪯̸`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2AAF \338";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2AAF\u0338"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2aaf\u0338"`Python 3 string literal.
URL	`%E2%AA%AF%CC%B8`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 AA AF CC B8`5 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`2AAF 0338`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&npre; writes a sequence of 2 code points (U+2AAF U+0338) that together show as one symbol. Specialist notation like this usually belongs in MathML, which positions it correctly; the entity is for occasional use in running text.

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.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).