∇
Technical information
| Symbol | ∇ | |
| Name | Nabla | |
| Unicode number | U+2207 | |
| Category | Triangle | |
| Description | The 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-16 | 0x2207 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002207 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2207" | |
| CSS Code | \2207 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2207" | |
| Perl | \x{2207} | |
| Python 2 | u"\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 ∇.
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Font size:
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>∇</span>
span {
content: "\2207";
}The symbol in different fonts
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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