Ratio
Part of Math Symbols
Ratio 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+2236
About this symbol
∶, the ratio sign, looks like a colon but is a separate character for maths, as in a ratio of 3 ∶ 2, so that it can be spaced and centred correctly.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- RATIO
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Preferred to 003A for denotation of division or scale in mathematical use
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