Benzene Ring
Benzene Ring 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+232C
About this symbol
⌬, a hexagon, is the chemists’ drawing of the benzene ring, six carbon atoms joined in a ring. The German chemist August Kekulé proposed the ring shape for benzene in 1865, and later said the idea came to him in a daydream of a snake biting its own tail.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BENZENE RING
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Chemistry symbol
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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