How to type Therefore
To type Therefore (∴), press Alt + 8756 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+2234 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2234 on Linux, or 2234 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Therefore
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2234
- Windows
- Alt + 8756 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8756 | 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+2234 | THEREFORE |
Symbols related to Therefore
These are filed under logic 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.
How to type ∴ in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, type 2234 and press Alt + X. Word reads the four characters before the cursor as a hex codepoint and replaces them, and pressing Alt + X again turns ∴ back into 2234, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
What Therefore is used for
In mathematical notation ∴ is an ordinary symbol: it carries no special spacing and sits in an expression the way a letter does, standing for a thing rather than doing something to the things around it. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\therefore$ 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 it is logic. That word is what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Therefore is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches it as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Therefore
The code chart points from ∴ to historic site (U+26EC). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Therefore looks nearly right but not quite.
How Therefore 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.
What people ask about Therefore
Where is the therefore symbol in word?
In Word, type 2234 and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ∴. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, THEREFORE. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 8756 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
What is the symbol for therefore?
∴ is THEREFORE, encoded at U+2234. It is distinct from historic site (U+26EC), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
How to type therefore symbol in keyboard?
You can press Alt + 8756 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ∴.
Every way to write Therefore
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2234 |
| Decimal | 8756 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 88 B4 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 22 34 |
| HTML entity | ∴ |
| HTML numeric | ∴ or ∴ |
| CSS | \2234 |
| JavaScript | \u2234 |
| Python | \u2234 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%88%B4 |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\therefore$ |
| SVG | 2234.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ∴ arrives as ∴
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 88 B4 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ∴. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+2234, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.