Logical Or

U+2228
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Entity ∨
Decimal ∨
Hex ∨

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2228
Decimal
8744
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Math Symbol (Sm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Math

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Logical Or.

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Format Value
HTML Named Entity
∨
HTML Decimal
∨
HTML Hex
∨
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 88 A8
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
22 28
UTF-32 Hex
00002228
CSS Escape
\2228
JavaScript Escape
\u2228
Python Escape
\u2228
URL Encoded
%E2%88%A8
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