Nabla
Part of Math Symbols
Nabla 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+2207
About this symbol
The nabla takes its name from a Greek word for a kind of harp, whose shape it resembles. In vector calculus it stands for the del operator, used to describe how a quantity changes through space.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- NABLA
- Also called
- Backward difference, Gradient, del
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Used for Laplacian operator (written with superscript 2)
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