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Square root symbol copy and paste — every format

Whatever you're pasting into — a browser, LaTeX document, spreadsheet, or CSS file — grab the exact square root symbol text format it expects.

Text & code

Symbol

Unicode code point

U+221A

HTML entity (named)

√

HTML entity (numeric)

√

CSS content

content: "\221A";

LaTeX

\sqrt{x}

Keyboard shortcuts

Windows alt code

Alt + 251

Windows Unicode input

221A, Alt + X

Mac shortcut

Option + V

Spreadsheets

Excel / Google Sheets formula

=SQRT(A1)

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