Ratio

U+2236

About Ratio

Ratio is the Unicode character ∶ at codepoint U+2236 in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Ratio

To use the Ratio 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: '\2236';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2236' evaluates to ∶. In Python source, write '\u2236'.

The character encodes to E2 88 B6 as UTF-8 bytes and 2236 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8758.

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.

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