Prescription Take
Part of Math Symbols
Prescription Take 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+211E
About this symbol
The prescription sign is an R with its tail crossed. It stands for the Latin recipe, “take”, the word that began old prescriptions, and it is still written at the top of a doctor’s prescription in many countries.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PRESCRIPTION TAKE
- Also called
- Recipe, Cross ratio
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Letterlike Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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