Tilde Operator Plus Combining Long Vertical Line Overlay HTML entity &nvsim;

&nvsim;: HTML entity for Tilde Operator Plus Combining Long Vertical Line Overlay ∼⃒ (U+223C U+20D2), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript and URL codes.

Entity: &nvsim;
Code points: U+223C U+20D2
Unicode name: TILDE OPERATOR + COMBINING LONG VERTICAL LINE OVERLAY
Block: Mathematical Operators
Category: Math symbol (Sm)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&nvsim;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`∼⃒`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`∼⃒`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\223C \20D2";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u223C\u20D2"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u223c\u20d2"`Python 3 string literal.
URL	`%E2%88%BC%E2%83%92`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 88 BC E2 83 92`6 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`223C 20D2`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&nvsim; writes a sequence of 2 code points (U+223C U+20D2) 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).