ALMOST EQUAL TO

Codepoint

U+2248

Literal Character

≈

Name

ALMOST EQUAL TO

Sketch

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Aliases

asymptotic to

Control Character

no

Block

Mathematical Operators

Subblock

Relations

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 89 88

UTF-16 byte encoding

22 48 (big endian)

HTML Entity

≈

LaTeX expression

$\approx$

Perl string literal

\x{2248}

Wikipedia

≈ (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
≉	NOT ALMOST EQUAL TO	ALMOST EQUAL TO (U+2248) COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (U+0338)