U+2208 ELEMENT OF: ∈ – Unicode

U+2208 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2200 to U+22FF Mathematical Operators in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Contains As Member. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2208 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “element of” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: contains, element, membership, of, set.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In mathematics, an element (or member) of a set is any one of the distinct objects that belong to that set. For example, given a set called A containing the first four positive integers ( $A = {1, 2, 3, 4}$ ), one could say that "3 is an element of A", expressed notationally as $3 \in A$ .

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8712
UTF-8	E2 88 88
UTF-16	22 08
UTF-32	00 00 22 08
URL-Quoted	%E2%88%88
HTML hex reference	∈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âˆˆ
HTML named entity	&Element;
HTML named entity	&in;
HTML named entity	∈
HTML named entity	&isinv;
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)	81 B8
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)	A1 F4
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)	A2 BA
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	A2 BA
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	A2 BA
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)	A1 F4
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)	A1 CA
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)	A1 CA
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	A1 CA
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)	7E 7B 21 4A 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)	1B 24 42 22 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)	1B 24 29 43 0E 21 74 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)	D9 96
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)	81 B8
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	81 B8
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	81 B8
L^AT_EX	\in
Adobe Glyph List	element
digraph	(-

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Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	ELEMENT OF
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Mathematical Operators
General Category (gc)	Math Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Element Of
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Element Of
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Element Of
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Element Of
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Element Of
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Element Of
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Element Of
Case Folding (cf)	Element Of
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✔
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Element Of
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Element Of
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Element Of
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Mirrored Glyph (bmg)	Contains As Member
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Element Of
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Element Of
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R

U+2208 Element Of

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