U+2209 NOT AN ELEMENT OF

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Decimal / Nº
8713
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2209, officially named NOT AN ELEMENT OF, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Math Operators block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8713 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 88 89 Copied!
UTF-16 22 09 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 09 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%88%89 Copied!
HTML hex reference ∉ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2209' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2209 Copied!
C and C++ \u2209 Copied!
C# \u2209 Copied!
CSS \002209 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8713) Copied!
Go \u2209 Copied!
JavaScript \u2209 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2209} Copied!
JSON \u2209 Copied!
Java \u2209 Copied!
Lua \u{2209} Copied!
Matlab char(8713) Copied!
Perl \x{2209} Copied!
PHP \u{2209} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2209' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2209} Copied!
Python \u2209 Copied!
Ruby \u{2209} Copied!
Rust \u{2209} Copied!