About Proportional To
Proportional To is the Unicode character ∝ at codepoint U+221D in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Proportional To
To use the Proportional To symbol (∝) in HTML, insert the
entity ∝ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ∝ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\221D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u221D' evaluates to ∝. In Python source, write '\u221D'.
The character encodes to E2 88 9D as UTF-8 bytes and 221D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8733.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.