℞
Technical information
| Symbol | ℞ | |
| Name | Prescription take | |
| Unicode number | U+211E | |
| Category | Letterlike Symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ℞, or U+211E, is known as the "Prescription Take". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Letter, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is traditionally used in prescriptions by physicians and medical practitioners. The "Rx" symbol has its roots in Latin, where it's an abbreviation of the command "recipe", which translates to "take" or "take thou". This is a prompt for the pharmacist to "take" certain quantities of ingredients to create the prescribed medication. This character is also frequently used in medical and healthcare literature or documentation. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ℞ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ℞ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ℞ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%84%9E | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x84 0x9E | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000100:10011110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x211E | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000211E |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u211E" | |
| CSS Code | \211E | |
| JavaScript | "\u211E" | |
| Perl | \x{211E} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u211E" | |
| Python 3 | \u211E | |
| Ruby | \u{211E} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ℞ in sentence and in bold like this ℞ and in italic like this ℞.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>℞</span>
span {
content: "\211E";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana