Tilde Operator

U+223C

About Tilde Operator

Tilde Operator is the Unicode character ∼ at codepoint U+223C 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 Tilde Operator

To use the Tilde Operator 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: '\223C';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u223C' evaluates to ∼. In Python source, write '\u223C'.

The character encodes to E2 88 BC as UTF-8 bytes and 223C as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8764.

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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