NABLA

Codepoint

U+2207

Literal Character

∇

Name

NABLA

Sketch

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Aliases

backward difference
gradient, del

Control Character

no

Block

Mathematical Operators

Subblock

Miscellaneous mathematical symbols

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 88 87

UTF-16 byte encoding

22 07 (big endian)

HTML Entity

∇

LaTeX expression

$\nabla$

Perl string literal

\x{2207}

Comments

• used for Laplacian operator (written with superscript 2)

See Also

U+25BD: white down-pointing triangle