How to type Superset Of
To type Superset Of (⊃), press Alt + 8835 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ⊃ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2283 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2283 on Linux, or 2283 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Superset Of
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2283
- Windows
- Alt + 8835 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8835 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ⊃ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2283 | SUPERSET OF |
Symbols related to Superset Of
These are filed under operator, superset and mathematics in CLDR, the keyword list Unicode publishes alongside the names.
Other math symbols
⊃ lives in the Mathematical Operators block (U+2200-U+22FF), the core set of mathematical and logical operators. Within Unicode it is classified as Sm, a mathematical symbol. Software may lay it out with the spacing an operator expects.
What Superset Of is used for
In mathematical notation ⊃ is a relation: it makes a claim about the two things either side of it, which is true or false rather than a value to work out. TeX gives a relation more space than an operator, and breaks a long line at one in preference to breaking at an operator. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\supset$ in LaTeX, in maths mode rather than in a sentence.
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ⊃ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are mathematics, operator and set. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Superset Of is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Superset Of
The standard recognises ⊃ under another name as well: includes in set. That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.
The code chart points from ⊃ to right sideways u bracket (U+2E27). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Superset Of looks nearly right but not quite.
How Superset Of behaves in software
⊃ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one. It is a mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is drawn reversed, so it keeps pointing at what it pointed at.
What people ask about Superset Of
How to type or operator in keyboard?
You can press Alt + 8835 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ⊃.
Every way to write Superset Of
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2283 |
| Decimal | 8835 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8A 83 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 22 83 |
| HTML entity | ⊃ |
| HTML numeric | ⊃ or ⊃ |
| CSS | \2283 |
| JavaScript | \u2283 |
| Python | \u2283 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%8A%83 |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\supset$ |
| SVG | 2283.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ⊃ arrives as ⊃
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 8A 83 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.