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August 2025
- Copy to clipboard added.
- Unicode 16.0 update.
Blocks Added
- Tulu‑Tigalari – new: 80 characters
- Garay – new: 69 characters
- Gurung Khema – new: 58 characters
- Kirat Rai – new: 58 characters
- Todhri – new: 52 characters
- Sunuwar – new: 44 characters
- Ol Onal – new: 44 characters
MINUS SIGN character
MINUS SIGN specifications
Name:
MINUS SIGNHex Number:
U+2212Decimal Number:
8722HTML Entity (Dec):
−HTML Entity (Hex):
−Category:
Sm (Math Symbol)Bidi Class:
ES (European Number Separator)Mirrored:
NDecomposition:
Combining Class:
0Unicode Block:
Mathematical OperatorsScript:
Common Plane:
0Plane Code:
BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane)Plane Range:
0000-FFFFCharacter Preview:
−
About MINUS SIGN
Minus Sign (U+08A4) is a Unicode math symbol from the Mathematical Operators block. It resides on Plane 0 (BMP, Basic Multilingual Plane), has bidirectional class ES (European number separator), is not mirrored, and has combining class 0 (Not Reordered). In HTML it can be written as − or −.