Mathematical Operators


Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and set notation.
Notably absent are the plus sign, greater than sign and less than sign, due to them already appearing in the Basic Latin Unicode block, and the plus-or-minus sign, multiplication sign and obelus, due to them already appearing in the Latin-1 Supplement block, although a distinct minus sign is included, differing from the Basic Latin hyphen-minus.

Block

Variation sequences

The Mathematical Operators block has sixteen variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use to denote variant symbols :
Base characterBase+VS01Description
U+2205 EMPTY SETzero with long diagonal stroke overlay form
U+2229 INTERSECTIONwith serifs
U+222A UNIONwith serifs
U+2268 LESS-THAN BUT NOT EQUAL TOwith vertical stroke
U+2269 GREATER-THAN BUT NOT EQUAL TOwith vertical stroke
U+2272 LESS-THAN OR EQUIVALENT TOfollowing the slant of the lower leg
U+2273 GREATER-THAN OR EQUIVALENT TOfollowing the slant of the lower leg
U+228A SUBSET OF WITH NOT EQUAL TOwith stroke through bottom members
U+228B SUPERSET OF WITH NOT EQUAL TOwith stroke through bottom members
U+2293 SQUARE CAPwith serifs
U+2294 SQUARE CUPwith serifs
U+2295 CIRCLED PLUSwith white rim
U+2297 CIRCLED TIMESwith white rim
U+229C CIRCLED EQUALSwith equal sign touching the circle
U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THANwith slanted equal
U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THANwith slanted equal

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mathematical Operators block: