U+2252 Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of
U+2252 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Mathematical Operators in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as nearly equals.
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 Image of Or Approximately Equal To. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2252 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 “approximately equal the image” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: approximately, equal, image, the.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8786 |
| UTF-8 | E2 89 92 |
| UTF-16 | 22 52 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 22 52 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%89%92 |
| HTML hex reference | ≒ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ≒ |
| HTML named entity | ≒ |
| HTML named entity | ≒ |
| alias | nearly equals |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A1 DC |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A1 DC |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 E0 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A1 D6 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 DC |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A2 E2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 E2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 E2 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A1 D6 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 50 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 50 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 62 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 21 56 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 66 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 E0 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 E0 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 E0 |
| LATEX | \fallingdotseq |
| Adobe Glyph List | approxequalorimage |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO OR THE IMAGE OF | |
| — | |
| Mathematical Operators | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| ✘ | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| ✘ | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Yes | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Image of Or Approximately Equal To | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of | |
| R |