MINUS SIGN

Codepoint

U+2212

Literal Character

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Name

MINUS SIGN

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Mathematical Operators

Subblock

Operators

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 88 92

UTF-16 byte encoding

22 12 (big endian)

HTML Entity

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Perl string literal

\x{2212}

See Also

U+002D: hyphen-minus
U+2796: heavy minus sign

Wikipedia

Minus sign (en)
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Used In

	Name	Composed Of
⁻	SUPERSCRIPT MINUS	<super> MINUS SIGN (U+2212)
₋	SUBSCRIPT MINUS	<sub> MINUS SIGN (U+2212)