U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
U+2052 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as abzüglich (German), med avdrag av (Swedish) and piska (Swedish, "whip").
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2052 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The commercial minus sign is a typographical and mathematical symbol used in commercial and financial documents in some European languages, in specific contexts.
In some commercial and financial documents, especially in Germany and Scandinavia, the symbol ÷ was used to indicate subtraction or to denote a negative quantity. The Unicode Consortium has allocated the code point U+2052 to identify this usage uniquely, the exact form of the symbol displayed is typeface (font) dependent. The symbol is also used in the margins of letters to indicate an enclosure, where the upper point is sometimes replaced with the corresponding number.
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet uses commercial minus signs to denote borrowed forms of a sound.
In Finland, it is used as a symbol for a correct response (the check mark indicates an incorrect response).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8274 |
UTF-8 | E2 81 92 |
UTF-16 | 20 52 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 52 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%81%92 |
HTML hex reference | ⁒ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â’ |
alias | abzüglich (German) |
alias | med avdrag av (Swedish) |
alias | piska (Swedish, "whip") |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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