Infinity symbol
U+221E
Mathematician John Wallis introduced this sign in 1655. Outside maths it is popular on jewelry and in bios to mean “forever”.
- Official name
- INFINITY
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1
- HTML
- HTML hex
- CSS content
- JavaScript
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 88 9E
- Keywords
- infinity, sign, mathematics, equation, science
- Keyboard
- Mac: ⌥ 5
- Categories
- Maths
The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.
Related
Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.