Minus Sign is the Unicode character − at codepoint U+2212 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
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How to Use Minus Sign
To use the Minus Sign 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: '\2212';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2212' evaluates to −. In Python source, write '\u2212'.
The character encodes to E2 88 92 as UTF-8 bytes and 2212 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8722.
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.