Circled Minus ⊖
⊖
U+2296
Symbol Meaning
Circled Minus. Mathematical Operators.
The symbol “Circled Minus” is included in the “Operators” subblock of the “Mathematical Operators” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
symmetric difference.
| Unicode Name | Circled Minus |
| 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 | 2296 |
| Simple case change | 2296 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 8A 96 | 226 138 150 | 14846614 | 11100010 10001010 10010110 |
| UTF-16BE | 22 96 | 34 150 | 8854 | 00100010 10010110 |
| UTF-16LE | 96 22 | 150 34 | 38434 | 10010110 00100010 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 22 96 | 0 0 34 150 | 8854 | 00000000 00000000 00100010 10010110 |
| UTF-32LE | 96 22 00 00 | 150 34 0 0 | 2518810624 | 10010110 00100010 00000000 00000000 |
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