Circled Minus

U+2296

Circled Minus is the Unicode character ⊖ at codepoint U+2296 in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Circled Minus

To use the Circled Minus symbol (⊖) in HTML, insert the entity ⊖ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⊖ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2296';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2296' evaluates to ⊖. In Python source, write '\u2296'.

The character encodes to E2 8A 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2296 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8854.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026