U+221E ∞

INFINITY

Sm — Math Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
8734

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent INFINITY in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 88 9E 226 136 158 3
UTF-16 LE 1E 22 30 34 2
UTF-16 BE 22 1E 34 30 2
UTF-32 LE 1E 22 00 00 30 34 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 22 1E 0 0 34 30 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 81 87 129 135 2
EUC-JP A1 E7 161 231 2
GBK A1 DE 161 222 2
Big5 A1 DB 161 219 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

∞
∞
∞
\221E
\u221E
%E2%88%9E
\u221e
8734

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
88
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
9E
UTF-8: E2 88 9E · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+221E

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

Nearby Characters in Mathematical Operators