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ALMOST EQUAL TO

ALMOST EQUAL TO is a symbol in the Mathematical Operators Unicode block.

U+2248 · 15.1.0 · Common script

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ALMOST EQUAL TO (U+2248) belongs to the Mathematical Operators block with Unicode general category Sm. Copy it as UTF-8, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Python from its character page.

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FormatValueAction
UTF-8E2 89 88
UTF-162248
HTML≈ / ≈
CSS\002248
JavaScript\u2248
Python\u2248
URL%E2%89%88

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