Partial Differential
Part of Math Symbols
Partial Differential 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+2202
About this symbol
The curly d marks a partial derivative, how a quantity changes when only one of the things it depends on changes. Adrien-Marie Legendre introduced it in 1786 but later dropped it; Carl Jacobi brought it back in 1841, and it has been used ever since.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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