U+2296 Circled Minus
U+2296 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. 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 symmetric difference.
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+2296 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “circled minus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: erosion, symmetric difference.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
⊖ is the Unicode character "circled minus" (U+2296). ⊖ is also known as the Plimsoll symbol. ⊖ may refer to:
- Symmetric difference, the set of elements which are in either of two sets but not in their intersection
- Erosion (morphology), one of the fundamental operations in morphological image processing
- A function for reversal and rotation in the APL programming language
- Symbol for the Escape character in ISO 2047
- Used to designate a thermodynamic quantity in the Standard state in chemistry
- Part of the notation for Standard enthalpy of reaction, as in ΔH⊖reaction
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8854 |
UTF-8 | E2 8A 96 |
UTF-16 | 22 96 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 22 96 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%8A%96 |
HTML hex reference | ⊖ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⊖ |
HTML named entity | ⊖ |
HTML named entity | ⊖ |
alias | symmetric difference |
LATEX | \ominus |
Adobe Glyph List | minuscircle |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CIRCLED MINUS | |
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Mathematical Operators | |
Math Symbol | |
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Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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Other | |
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Other | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
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