Minus Emoji ➖
Emoji Meaning
Heavy minus is opposed to the heavy plus. Minus is used in mathematics for subtracting numbers. Also this emoji looks like the space button on a computer keyboard.
The symbol “Minus” is included in the “Heavy variants of arithmetic symbols” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Math” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.
Synonyms
Minus.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Minus Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Heavy variants of arithmetic symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Symbols |
| Emoji Subcategory | Math |
| Emoji Name | Minus |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2796 |
| Simple case change | 2796 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 96 | 226 158 150 | 14851734 | 11100010 10011110 10010110 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 96 | 39 150 | 10134 | 00100111 10010110 |
| UTF-16LE | 96 27 | 150 39 | 38439 | 10010110 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 96 | 0 0 39 150 | 10134 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10010110 |
| UTF-32LE | 96 27 00 00 | 150 39 0 0 | 2519138304 | 10010110 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
