Element Of
Part of Math Symbols
Element Of has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ∈
- Unicode
- U+2208
About this symbol
The element of sign means “belongs to”: x ∈ A says that x is one of the members of the set A. The Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano introduced it in 1889, in Arithmetices principia, as a stylised epsilon for ἐστί, the Greek word for “is”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ELEMENT OF
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Set membership
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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