Graphical representation of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A Unicode block

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and database notation.

Character table

CodeResultDescription
U+27C0Three dimensional angle
U+27C1White triangle containing small white triangle
U+27C2Perpendicular
U+27C3Open subset
U+27C4Open superset
U+27C5Left S-shaped bag delimiter
U+27C6Right S-shaped bag delimiter
U+27C7Or with dot inside
U+27C8Reverse solidus preceding subset
U+27C9Superset preceding solidus
U+27CAVertical bar with horizontal stroke
U+27CBMathematical rising diagonal
U+27CCLong division
U+27CDMathematical falling diagonal
U+27CESquared logical and
U+27CFSquared logical or
U+27D0White diamond with centered dot
U+27D1And with dot
U+27D2Element of opening upward
U+27D3Lower right corner with dot
U+27D4Upper left corner with dot
U+27D5Left outer join
U+27D6Right outer join
U+27D7Full outer join
U+27D8Large up tack
U+27D9Large down tack
U+27DALeft and right double turnstile
U+27DBLeft and right tack
U+27DCLeft multimap
U+27DDLong right tack
U+27DELong left tack
U+27DFUp tack with circle above
U+27E0Lozenge divided by horizontal rule
U+27E1White concave-sided diamond
U+27E2White concave-sided diamond with leftward tick
U+27E3White concave-sided diamond with rightward tick
U+27E4White square with leftward tick
U+27E5White square with rightward tick
U+27E6Mathematical left white square bracket
U+27E7Mathematical right white square bracket
U+27E8Mathematical left angle bracket
U+27E9Mathematical right angle bracket
U+27EAMathematical left double angle bracket
U+27EBMathematical right double angle bracket
U+27ECMathematical left white tortoise shell bracket
U+27EDMathematical right white tortoise shell bracket
U+27EEMathematical left flattened parenthesis
U+27EFMathematical right flattened parenthesis

Compact table

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A[1] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+27Cx
U+27Dx
U+27Ex
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.2U+27D0..27E522Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols
Whistler, Ken (2001-05-22), "ITEM 3", WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87
Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M16, ITEM 3", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "Resolution M40.4", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
U+27E6..27EB6Freytag, Asmus (1999-02-05), The math pieces from the symbol font
Karlsson, Kent; Freytag, Asmus (2001-01-16), Disunify braces/brackets for math, computing science, and Z notation from similar-looking CJK braces/brackets
Ad-hoc report on Mathematical Symbols, 2001-04-03
Karlsson, Kent (2001-04-04), Proposal to disunify certain fencing CJK punctuation marks from similar-looking Math fences
Whistler, Ken (2001-04-10), Bracket Disunification & Normalization Hell
Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Disunifying Braces and Brackets", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
Suignard, Michel (2001-05-23), Discussion of Issues Regarding Bracket Disunification
Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M21", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting, Reverse the decision made in motion 86-M6 not to disunify brackets.
Suignard, Michel (2001-08-14), Bracket Disunification & Normalization
Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "Bracket Disunification and Normalization", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "Resolution M41.1", Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
4.1U+27C0..27C12Pantelia, Maria (2003-06-11), Proposal to encode ancient Greek mathematical characters in the UCS
U+27C21Freytag, Asmus (2003-06-09), Additional Mathematical and Letterlike Characters
U+27C3..27C64Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-30), Additional Mathematical Characters
Suignard, Michel (2004-02-04), "T.10 Miscellaneous Mathematical, item b", Comments accompanying the US positive vote on PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003
Moore, Lisa (2004-08-19), "100-C6", UTC #100 Minutes
5.0U+27C7..27C93Freytag, Asmus; Sargent, Murray; Beeton, Barbara; Carlisle, David (2004-11-15), Progress report on Mathematical Symbols
Freytag, Asmus (2004-11-18), Twenty six mathematical characters
U+27CA1Lehtiranta, Juhani; Ruppel, Klaas; Suutari, Toni; Trosterud, Trond (2005-07-22), Report on progress in implementing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet with indication of the need for additional characters and symbols
Ruppel, Klaas; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Everson, Michael; Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-09-13), Proposal to add six additional Uralicist characters to the UCS
Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "A. Uralicist character additions", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis)
Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Consensus 105-C29", UTC #105 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1U+27CC, 27EE..27EF3Freytag, Asmus; Beeton, Barbara; Ion, Patrick; Sargent, Murray; Carlisle, David; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-15), 29 Additional Mathematical and Symbol Characters
Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Mathematical Characters and Symbols (C.4)", UTC #110 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
U+27EC..27ED2Freytag, Asmus; Beeton, Barbara; Sargent, Murray (2006-02-09), Proposal for the Addition of Two Mathematical Bracket Characters
Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.21", UTC #106 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.22", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
6.0U+27CE..27CF2Iancu, Laurențiu (2009-07-28), Proposal to Encode Two Mathematical Symbols
Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "D.2.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
Iancu, Laurențiu (2009-10-21), Follow-up on Action Item 120-A77
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
6.1U+27CB, 27CD2Iancu, Laurențiu (2009-10-26), Proposal to Encode Mathematical Diagonals
Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "D.2.1", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah; Beeton, Barbara; Iancu, Laurențiu (2010-01-12), Revised Proposal to Encode Mathematical Diagonals
Constable, Peter; Iancu, Laurențiu; Sargent, Murray (2010-01-13), Proposal to rename the diagonal symbols U+27CB and U+27CD in the pipeline
Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "Consensus 122-C11", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes, Change the name of U+27CB from RISING DIAGONAL to MATHEMATICAL RISING DIAGONAL and U+27CD from FALLING DIAGONAL to MATHEMATICAL FALLING DIAGONAL.
, )"M56.08c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24

See also