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Glyph for U+2052
Source: Noto Sans

U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign

U+2052 was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2052 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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
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 ⁒
alias abzüglich (German)
alias med avdrag av (Swedish)
alias piska (Swedish, "whip")

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Property Value
Age 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN
Unicode 1 Name
Block General Punctuation
General Category Math Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R