Technical information

Symbol
NameNabla
Unicode numberU+2207
CategoryTriangle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ∇, or U+2207, is known as "Nabla". It belongs to the "Mathematical Operators" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an inverted triangle and is often used in vector calculus to denote the gradient or spatial derivative of a function. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity∇
HTML Entity (hex)∇
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%88%87
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x88 0x87
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10001000:10000111
UTF-160x2207
UTF-320x00002207

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2207"
CSS Code\2207
JavaScript"\u2207"
Perl\x{2207}
Python 2u"\u2207"
Python 3\u2207
Ruby\u{2207}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ∇ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8711;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2207";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References