≔ Colon Equals

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Nearby in Mathematical Operators

• ≌ U+224C All Equal To
• ≍ U+224D Equivalent To
• ≎ U+224E Geometrically Equivalent To
• ≏ U+224F Difference Between
• ≐ U+2250 Approaches The Limit
• ≑ U+2251 Geometrically Equal To
• ≒ U+2252 Approximately Equal To Or The Image Of
• ≓ U+2253 Image Of Or Approximately Equal To
• ≕ U+2255 Equals Colon
• ≖ U+2256 Ring In Equal To
• ≗ U+2257 Ring Equal To
• ≘ U+2258 Corresponds To
• ≙ U+2259 Estimates
• ≚ U+225A Equiangular To
• ≛ U+225B Star Equals
• ≜ U+225C Delta Equal To

All 256 characters: Mathematical Operators.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Mathematical Operators (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for ≔?

Use the named entity ≔, or ≔ (decimal) or ≔ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+2254?

E2 89 94 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%89%94.

How do I write U+2254 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u2254. Python: \u2254.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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