Source: Noto Sans Math

U+2213 Minus-Or-Plus Sign

U+2213 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 glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as end of a European number, e.g., a currency symbol, from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2213 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number.

The CLDR project calls this character “minus-or-plus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: plus-minus.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The plus–minus sign or plus-or-minus sign, ±, is a symbol with multiple meanings.

In mathematics, it generally indicates a choice of exactly two possible values, one of which is obtained through addition and the other through subtraction.

In statistics and experimental sciences, the sign commonly indicates the confidence interval or uncertainty bounding a range of possible errors in a measurement, often the standard deviation or standard error. The sign may also represent an inclusive range of values that a reading might have.

In chess, the sign indicates a clear advantage for the white player; the complementary minus-plus sign, ∓ indicates the same advantage for the black player.

Other meanings occur in other fields, including medicine, engineering, chemistry, electronics, linguistics, and philosophy.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8723
UTF-8	E2 88 93
UTF-16	22 13
UTF-32	00 00 22 13
URL-Quoted	%E2%88%93
HTML hex reference	∓
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âˆ“
HTML named entity	&MinusPlus;
HTML named entity	&mnplus;
HTML named entity	&mp;
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	A3 DB
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	A3 DB
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 36 D3 32
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 51 23 5B 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 4F 23 5B 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	82 7A
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	82 7A
L^AT_EX	\mp
Adobe Glyph List	minusplus
digraph	-+

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	MINUS-OR-PLUS SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Mathematical Operators
General Category (gc)	Math Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	European Terminator
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Case Folding (cf)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
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)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
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)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
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)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
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)	Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Minus-Or-Plus Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R