Multiplication Sign In Left Half Circle

Group: Mathematics

Keywords

math

About this character

Multiplication Sign In Left Half Circle belongs to the Mathematics group and is encoded at U+2A34. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2A34
Hex: 2A34
Decimal: 10804
HTML: ⨴
CSS: \2A34
JavaScript: \u2A34
Python: \u2A34
UTF-8: E2 A8 B4

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.