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U+2796 · HEAVY MINUS SIGN

Minus

CodepointU+2796
NameHEAVY MINUS SIGN
Emoji nameminus
Decimal10134
BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySo — Other Symbol
Unicode version6.0 (2010)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthW — Wide
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 9E 96`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2796`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002796`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`➖`
HTML hex	`➖`
CSS	`\2796`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2796`
JSON	`\u2796`
Python	`\u2796`
Python	`\N{HEAVY MINUS SIGN}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2796`
C / C++	`\u2796`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2796}`
Go	`\u2796`
Ruby	`\u2796`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(10134)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%9E%96`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →

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