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MINUS SIGN

MINUS SIGN is a symbol in the Mathematical Operators Unicode block.

U+2212 · 15.1.0 · Common script

About this character

MINUS SIGN (U+2212) belongs to the Mathematical Operators block with Unicode general category Sm. Copy it as UTF-8, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or Python from its character page.

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FormatValueAction
UTF-8E2 88 92
UTF-162212
HTML− / −
CSS\002212
JavaScript\u2212
Python\u2212
URL%E2%88%92

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