U+208B SUBSCRIPT MINUS

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Decimal / Nº
8331
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+208B, officially named SUBSCRIPT MINUS, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Super And Sub block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as SUBSCRIPT HYPHEN-MINUS.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8331 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 82 8B Copied!
UTF-16 20 8B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 8B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%82%8B Copied!
HTML hex reference ₋ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'208B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u208B Copied!
C and C++ \u208b Copied!
C# \u208b Copied!
CSS \00208B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8331) Copied!
Go \u208b Copied!
JavaScript \u208B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{208b} Copied!
JSON \u208B Copied!
Java \u208B Copied!
Lua \u{208B} Copied!
Matlab char(8331) Copied!
Perl \x{208B} Copied!
PHP \u{208b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\208B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{208B} Copied!
Python \u208b Copied!
Ruby \u{208b} Copied!
Rust \u{208b} Copied!