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U+2797 · HEAVY DIVISION SIGN

Divide

  • CodepointU+2797
  • NameHEAVY DIVISION SIGN
  • Emoji namedivide
  • Decimal10135
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version6.0 (2010)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2797 (➗) is HEAVY DIVISION SIGN, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “divide”, in the Symbols group, subgroup math. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ➗

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9E 973 bytes
UTF-1627971 code unit
UTF-32000027974 bytes
HTML decimal➗
HTML hex➗
CSS\2797in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2797
JSON\u2797
Python\u2797
Python\N{HEAVY DIVISION SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u2797
C / C++\u2797universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2797}
Go\u2797
Ruby\u2797
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10135)
URL-encoded%E2%9E%97percent-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+00F7÷Division Sign
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+2791➑Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Eight U+2792➒Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Nine U+2793➓Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Number Ten U+2794➔Heavy Wide-Headed Rightwards Arrow U+2795➕Plus U+2796➖Minus U+2798➘Heavy South East Arrow U+2799➙Heavy Rightwards Arrow U+279A➚Heavy North East Arrow U+279B➛Drafting Point Rightwards Arrow U+279C➜Heavy Round-Tipped Rightwards Arrow U+279D➝Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow