Precedes
Part of Math Symbols
Precedes 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+227A
About this symbol
≺, precedes, orders things that are not plain numbers, such as the steps of a process. In economics y ≺ x says that x is preferred to y, the mirror of x ≻ y.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PRECEDES
- Also called
- Lower rank than
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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