U+2207 NABLA: ∇ – Unicode

U+2207 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 character is also known as backward difference, gradient and del.

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 not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2207 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 glyph can be confused with 8 other glyphs.

The CLDR project calls this character “nabla” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: triangle.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The nabla is a triangular symbol resembling an inverted Greek delta: $\nabla$ or ∇. The name comes, by reason of the symbol's shape, from the Hellenistic Greek word νάβλα for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith in an 1870 letter to Peter Guthrie Tait.
The nabla symbol is available in standard HTML as ∇ and in LaTeX as abla. In Unicode, it is the character at code point U+2207, or 8711 in decimal notation, in the Mathematical Operators block.
It is also called del.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8711
UTF-8	E2 88 87
UTF-16	22 07
UTF-32	00 00 22 07
URL-Quoted	%E2%88%87
HTML hex reference	∇
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âˆ‡
HTML named entity	&Del;
HTML named entity	∇
alias	backward difference
alias	gradient
alias	del
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	A1 D4
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	A2 E0
L^AT_EX	\nabla
Adobe Glyph List	gradient
Adobe Glyph List	nabla
digraph	NB

Related Characters

Confusables

Mathematical Bold Nabla

Mathematical Italic Nabla

Mathematical Bold Italic Nabla

Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Nabla

Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Nabla

Warang Citi Capital Letter E

Apl Functional Symbol Del Diaeresis

Apl Functional Symbol Del Tilde

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	NABLA
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)	Nabla
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Nabla
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Nabla
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Nabla
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Nabla
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Nabla
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Nabla
Case Folding (cf)	Nabla
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)	Nabla
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)	1
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	1
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)	✘
Math (Math)	✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Nabla
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Nabla
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 Paired Bracket (bpb)	Nabla
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)	Nabla
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R

U+2207 Nabla

Representations

Related Characters

Confusables

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