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Precedes But Not Equivalent to HTML entity ⋨
⋨ is the HTML entity for Precedes But Not Equivalent to ⋨ (U+22E8). Copy ⋨, ⋨ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⋨- Also written
⋨- Code point
- U+22E8
- Unicode name
- PRECEDES BUT NOT 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: "\22E8";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u22E8"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u22e8"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{PRECEDES BUT NOT EQUIVALENT TO}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%8B%A8Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8B A83 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22E81 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⋨ writes U+22E8 (Precedes But Not 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
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).