Letter-like symbols\partial

\partialSymbol

The ∂ symbol (Partial differential, U+2202), written as \partial in LaTeX math mode.

\partial

Topic: Letter-like symbols
Available in: base
Allowed mode: math
Frequency: 6.49% of corpus formulasrank 14 of 474
Glyph: ∂
Unicode: U+2202 · PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL

Common tasks#

How to write a partial derivative#

\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}

How to write a mixed partial#

\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x\partial y}

How to write a partial symbol alone#

\partial_t u + \partial_x f(u)=0

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+2202 (PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL).

See also#

\backslash base
\lnot base
\neg base

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