Up Tack

Part of Math Symbols

Up Tack 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+22A5

About this symbol

In logic ⊥ stands for a contradiction, a statement that is always false, and computer scientists call it bottom. Geometry uses a look-alike for perpendicular lines, but Unicode gives that its own character, ⟂.

Unicode facts

Official name
UP TACK
Also called
Base, bottom
Type
Maths symbol
Unicode block
Mathematical Operators
Unicode group
Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Related
⟂ Perpendicular U+27C2

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