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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