Almost Equal To symbol

Official name

ALMOST EQUAL TO

Unicode block

Mathematical Operators

Added in

Unicode 1.1

HTML

≈

HTML hex

≈

CSS content

\2248

JavaScript

\u{2248}

UTF-8 bytes

E2 89 88

Keywords

almost, approximate, approximation, equal, mathematics, equation, science

Keyboard

Mac: ⌥ X

Categories

Maths

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