Rule-delayed

Part of Math Symbols

Rule-delayed 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+29F4

About this symbol

⧴, a colon and an arrow, is RuleDelayed in the Wolfram Language of Mathematica, typed :>. It replaces one expression with another, working out the replacement only when the rule is used.

Unicode facts

Official name
RULE-DELAYED
Also called
Colon right arrow
Type
Maths symbol
Unicode block
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
Unicode group
Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
Added in
Unicode 3.2 (2002)

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