Using Google Search to find what a symbol means without knowing what it's called

Question

I was doing math homework and wanted to find out what ⊃ means, so I entered the symbol ⊃ in Google Search.

However, I got no search results. How can I use Google to find out what symbols mean?

possible duplicate of How to search the internet for terms with special characters and How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?

dnbrv · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-28 13:56:27Z

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Wikipedia often has lovely tables you can find. I simply searched table of math symbols and I got to this page: List of Mathematical Symbols

I then took the symbol and hit Ctrl + F and entered in the symbol (⊃) and I was taken right to the symbol.

edited Apr 28 '12 at 13:56

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answered Apr 28 '12 at 3:27

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	Thanks! Wikipedia is awesome. – David Faux Apr 28 '12 at 3:30
	No problem! Wikipedia is very helpful! – Fogest Apr 28 '12 at 4:06

aitchnyu · Answer 2 · 2012-04-28 09:18:15Z

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SymbolHound also helps.

It got me an answer when I wanted to know what => means in Scala language. But your particular query got useless results.

answered Apr 28 '12 at 9:18

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