U+2227 Logical And
U+2227 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 wedge and conjunction.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2227 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “logical and” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ac, atque, logical and, wedge.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Wedge (∧) is a symbol that looks similar to an in-line caret (^). It is used to represent various operations. In Unicode, the symbol is encoded U+2227 ∧ LOGICAL AND (∧, ∧) and by wedge and land in TeX. The opposite symbol (∨) is called a vel, or sometimes a (descending) wedge. Some authors who call the descending wedge vel often call the ascending wedge ac (the corresponding Latin word for "and", also spelled "atque"), keeping their usage parallel
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8743 |
| UTF-8 | E2 88 A7 |
| UTF-16 | 22 27 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 22 27 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%88%A7 |
| HTML hex reference | ∧ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ∧ |
| HTML named entity | ∧ |
| HTML named entity | ∧ |
| alias | wedge |
| alias | conjunction |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 FC |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A2 CA |
| LATEX | \wedge |
| Adobe Glyph List | logicaland |
| digraph | AN |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LOGICAL AND | |
| — | |
| Mathematical Operators | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Logical And | |
| ✘ | |
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| Logical And | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Logical And | |
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| Logical And | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Logical And | |
| R |