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U+2296 Circled Minus

U+2296 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2200 to U+22FF Mathematical Operators 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 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
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

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Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CIRCLED MINUS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Mathematical Operators
General Category (gc) Math Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2296 Circled Minus
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R