# Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, angles, and circle symbols.

## Block

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+298x | ⦀ | ⦁ | ⦂ | ⦃ | ⦄ | ⦅ | ⦆ | ⦇ | ⦈ | ⦉ | ⦊ | ⦋ | ⦌ | ⦍ | ⦎ | ⦏ |
| U+299x | ⦐ | ⦑ | ⦒ | ⦓ | ⦔ | ⦕ | ⦖ | ⦗ | ⦘ | ⦙ | ⦚ | ⦛ | ⦜ | ⦝ | ⦞ | ⦟ |
| U+29Ax | ⦠ | ⦡ | ⦢ | ⦣ | ⦤ | ⦥ | ⦦ | ⦧ | ⦨ | ⦩ | ⦪ | ⦫ | ⦬ | ⦭ | ⦮ | ⦯ |
| U+29Bx | ⦰ | ⦱ | ⦲ | ⦳ | ⦴ | ⦵ | ⦶ | ⦷ | ⦸ | ⦹ | ⦺ | ⦻ | ⦼ | ⦽ | ⦾ | ⦿ |
| U+29Cx | ⧀ | ⧁ | ⧂ | ⧃ | ⧄ | ⧅ | ⧆ | ⧇ | ⧈ | ⧉ | ⧊ | ⧋ | ⧌ | ⧍ | ⧎ | ⧏ |
| U+29Dx | ⧐ | ⧑ | ⧒ | ⧓ | ⧔ | ⧕ | ⧖ | ⧗ | ⧘ | ⧙ | ⧚ | ⧛ | ⧜ | ⧝ | ⧞ | ⧟ |
| U+29Ex | ⧠ | ⧡ | ⧢ | ⧣ | ⧤ | ⧥ | ⧦ | ⧧ | ⧨ | ⧩ | ⧪ | ⧫ | ⧬ | ⧭ | ⧮ | ⧯ |
| U+29Fx | ⧰ | ⧱ | ⧲ | ⧳ | ⧴ | ⧵ | ⧶ | ⧷ | ⧸ | ⧹ | ⧺ | ⧻ | ⧼ | ⧽ | ⧾ | ⧿ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 |||||||||||||||||
Some of these symbols are used in Z notation. Specifically
* U+2981 ⦁ Z NOTATION SPOT
* U+2982 ⦂ Z NOTATION TYPE COLON
* U+2987 ⦇ Z NOTATION LEFT IMAGE BRACKET
* U+2988 ⦈ Z NOTATION RIGHT IMAGE BRACKET
* U+2989 ⦉ Z NOTATION LEFT BINDING BRACKET
* U+298A ⦊ Z NOTATION RIGHT BINDING BRACKET
The last two symbols are used in combinatorial game theory
* U+29FE ⧾ TINY
* U+29FF ⧿ MINY

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/98-405 | | Beeton, Barbara; Ion, Patrick (1998-12-01), Proposal to encode additional mathematical and technical symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/98-406 | | Sargent, Murray (1998-12-01), Proposal to encode mathematical variant tags |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) | | Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Mathematical Symbols", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/99-160 | | Beeton, Barbara (1999-06-01), Proposal to encode mathematical variant tags |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/99-238 | | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | | N2093 | Addition of medical symbols and enclosed numbers, 1999-09-13 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "8.8", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-002 | | Beeton, Barbara (2000-01-09), Request for assignment of codes to mathematical and technical symbols that do not appear in Unicode 2.0 or ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-024 | | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-005R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-14), "Motion 82-M4", Minutes of UTC #82 in San Jose |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-094 | N2191 | Proposal for Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in the BMP, 2000-03-14 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5 | N2195 | Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-119 | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18, 8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-115R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M3, 83-M11, and 83-M21", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-298 | N2258 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/00-342 | N2278 | Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-114 | N2328 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-147 (pdf, html) | N2343 | Everson, Michael (2001-04-03), Encoding of Long Arrows |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-012R | | Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Motion 86-M19", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-317 | | Suignard, Michel (2001-08-14), Bracket Disunification & Normalization |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-342 | | Suignard, Michel (2001-09-10), "T.9 B.1 List of combining characters/Variation selectors", Comments accompanying the US positive vote on the FPDAM 1 to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2001 |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/01-386R | N2389R | Suignard, Michel (2001-10-26), "Ireland: Negative", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3530 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000) - revised version |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | L2/13-145 | N4434 | Suignard, Michel (2013-07-18), Math characters and variation sequences |
| 3.2 | U+2980..2996, 2999..29D7, 29DC..29E5, 29E7..29FB | 117 | | N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "11.1.1 Math characters and variation sequences", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-064 | | Ion, Patrick (2001-01-24), Mathematical Variant Symbols |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-067 | N2318 | Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-01-25), Additional Mathematical Symbols |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-142 | N2336 | Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-156 | N2356 | Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10) |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-159 | N2344 | Ad-hoc report on Mathematical Symbols, 2001-04-03 |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-227 | | Whistler, Ken (2001-05-22), "ITEM 2 and 6", WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87 |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-184R | | Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M16, ITEM 2 and 6", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-344 | N2353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 |
| 3.2 | U+2997..2998, 29D8..29DB, 29E6, 29FC..29FF | 11 | L2/01-386R | N2389R | Suignard, Michel (2001-10-26), "Ireland: Negative", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3530 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000) - revised version |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||