U+2238 DOT MINUS

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Decimal / Nº
8760
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2238, officially named DOT MINUS, 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 Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8760 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 88 B8 Copied!
UTF-16 22 38 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 38 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%88%B8 Copied!
HTML hex reference ∸ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2238' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2238 Copied!
C and C++ \u2238 Copied!
C# \u2238 Copied!
CSS \002238 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8760) Copied!
Go \u2238 Copied!
JavaScript \u2238 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2238} Copied!
JSON \u2238 Copied!
Java \u2238 Copied!
Lua \u{2238} Copied!
Matlab char(8760) Copied!
Perl \x{2238} Copied!
PHP \u{2238} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2238' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2238} Copied!
Python \u2238 Copied!
Ruby \u{2238} Copied!
Rust \u{2238} Copied!