≤Less than or equal symbol
≤ is the Less than or equal character. It is text, not a picture — it takes the colour of the type around it and pastes into anything.
- Unicode
- U+2264
- Alt code
- Alt+8804
- HTML
- ≤
- Unicode name
- Less-Than Or Equal To
Where the Less than or equal symbol comes from
The inequality signs < and > are Thomas Harriot’s, published posthumously in 1631. The versions with a bar underneath, meaning “or equal to”, came two centuries later from Pierre Bouguer, who wanted a single mark for a condition that previously took a sentence.
Constraints and thresholds — n ≤ 10, age ≤ 18, price ≤ 50. In documentation it beats <= because a reader never has to work out whether the two characters are one operator or two.
Less than or equal symbol codes
Copy whichever form your tool expects. The character behind them does not change.
How to type ≤ on any keyboard
Pick the route that matches the program in front of you.
Will ≤ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Safe in most places. Common fonts have it. Older or decorative fonts sometimes do not, so a fallback font will kick in.
Symbols people confuse with ≤
Lookalikes that are not the same character at all — separate codes, separate fonts, and here they number 8.
Other mathematical symbols
The rest of the family, one page each — origin, typing routes and font support, across all 6.
Math symbols
Operators, set theory, logic, calculus — everything past the number row.