U+2A8D Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal
U+2A8D was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block Supplemental Mathematical Operators in the 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. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Greater-Than Above Similar Or Equal. The word that U+2A8D forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “less-than above similar equal” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: above, equal, less-than, similar.
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 | 10893 |
| UTF-8 | E2 AA 8D |
| UTF-16 | 2A 8D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 2A 8D |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%AA%8D |
| HTML hex reference | ⪍ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⪠|
| HTML named entity | ⪍ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 38 98 37 |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| LESS-THAN ABOVE SIMILAR OR EQUAL | |
| — | |
| Supplemental Arrows-C | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Yes | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Greater-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Less-Than Above Similar Or Equal | |
| R |