Here's the unicode number for it: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221a/index.htm
And this prints it out to a file for me:
package com.sandbox;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.ParseException;
public class Sandbox {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException, IOException {
FileUtils.write(new File("out.txt"), "\u221A", "UTF8");
}
}
When I open that file, it has the square root symbol in it.