DOT MINUS

Codepoint
U+2238
Literal Character
Name
DOT MINUS
Sketch
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Aliases
saturating subtraction
Control Character
no
Subblock
Operator
UTF-8 byte encoding
e2 88 b8
UTF-16 byte encoding
22 38 (big endian)
HTML Entity
∸
Perl string literal
\x{2238}
Comments
  • sometimes claimed as notation for symmetric set difference, but 2206 is preferred