Bowtie

U+22C8
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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+22C8
Decimal
8904
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Math Symbol (Sm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
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 — Bowtie.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
⋈
HTML Hex
⋈
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8B 88
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
22 C8
UTF-32 Hex
000022C8
CSS Escape
\22C8
JavaScript Escape
\u22C8
Python Escape
\u22C8
URL Encoded
%E2%8B%88
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