U+2052 Commercial Minus Sign
U+2052 was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the 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 commercial minus sign is used to signify a negative remainder of a division operation. 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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 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 | â’ |
| alias | abzüglich (German) |
| alias | med avdrag av (Swedish) |
| alias | piska (Swedish, "whip") |
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Complete Record
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