Star Equals

U+225B

About Star Equals

Star Equals is the Unicode character ≛ at codepoint U+225B in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

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

How to Use Star Equals

To use the Star Equals 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: '\225B';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u225B' evaluates to ≛. In Python source, write '\u225B'.

The character encodes to E2 89 9B as UTF-8 bytes and 225B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8795.

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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