U+2212 MINUS SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
8722
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2212, officially named MINUS SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Math Operators block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition 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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8722 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 88 92 Copied!
UTF-16 22 12 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 12 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%88%92 Copied!
HTML hex reference − Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2212' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2212 Copied!
C and C++ \u2212 Copied!
C# \u2212 Copied!
CSS \002212 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8722) Copied!
Go \u2212 Copied!
JavaScript \u2212 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2212} Copied!
JSON \u2212 Copied!
Java \u2212 Copied!
Lua \u{2212} Copied!
Matlab char(8722) Copied!
Perl \x{2212} Copied!
PHP \u{2212} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2212' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2212} Copied!
Python \u2212 Copied!
Ruby \u{2212} Copied!
Rust \u{2212} Copied!