COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN

Codepoint

U+2052

Literal Character

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Name

COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN

Sketch

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Aliases

abzüglich (German), med avdrag av (Swedish), piska (Swedish, "whip")

Control Character

no

Block

General Punctuation

Subblock

General punctuation

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 81 92

UTF-16 byte encoding

20 52 (big endian)

HTML Entity

⁒

Perl string literal

\x{2052}

Comments

• a common glyph variant and fallback representation looks like ./.
• may also be used as a dingbat to indicate correctness
• used in Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a related borrowed form with different sound

See Also

U+0025: percent sign
U+066A: arabic percent sign
U+00F7: division sign

Wikipedia

Commercial minus sign (en)