Minus Sign −
−
U+2212
Symbol Meaning
Minus Sign. Mathematical Operators.
The symbol “Minus Sign” is included in the “Operators” subblock of the “Mathematical Operators” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Minus Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| Entity | − |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Mathematical Operators |
| Unicode Subblock | Operators |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2212 |
| Simple case change | 2212 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Dash | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 88 92 | 226 136 146 | 14846098 | 11100010 10001000 10010010 |
| UTF-16BE | 22 12 | 34 18 | 8722 | 00100010 00010010 |
| UTF-16LE | 12 22 | 18 34 | 4642 | 00010010 00100010 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 22 12 | 0 0 34 18 | 8722 | 00000000 00000000 00100010 00010010 |
| UTF-32LE | 12 22 00 00 | 18 34 0 0 | 304218112 | 00010010 00100010 00000000 00000000 |
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