Perpendicular
Part of Math Symbols
Perpendicular 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+27C2
About this symbol
⟂ means perpendicular: AB ⟂ CD says the two lines meet at a right angle. It looks like the up tack ⊥ of logic, but Unicode keeps the two separate.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PERPENDICULAR
- Also called
- Orthogonal to
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
- Unicode notes
- Relation, typeset with additional spacing
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