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U+22C8 · BOWTIE

Bowtie

CodepointU+22C8
NameBOWTIE
Decimal8904
BlockMathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySm — Math Symbol
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 8B 88`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`22C8`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000022C8`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&bowtie;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`⋈`
HTML hex	`⋈`
CSS	`\22C8`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u22C8`
JSON	`\u22C8`
Python	`\u22C8`
Python	`\N{BOWTIE}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u22C8`
C / C++	`\u22C8`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{22C8}`
Go	`\u22C8`
Ruby	`\u22C8`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8904)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%8B%88`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+16DEᛞRunic Letter Dagaz Daeg D U+2A1D⨝Join

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Nearby in Mathematical Operators

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