Minus is the Unicode character ➖ at codepoint U+2796 in the Dingbats 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
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How to Use Minus
To use the 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: '\2796';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2796' evaluates to ➖. In Python source, write '\u2796'.
The character encodes to E2 9E 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2796 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10134.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.