U+2295 Circled Plus
U+2295 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Mathematical Operators 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 direct sum and vector pointing into page.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2295 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “circled plus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circled, plus.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Circled plus (⊕) or n-ary circled plus (⨁) (in Unicode, U+2295 ⊕ CIRCLED PLUS, U+2A01 ⨁ N-ARY CIRCLED PLUS OPERATOR) may refer to:
- Sun cross, a circle containing four or more spokes with many variants and uses
- Earth symbol, astronomical and alchemical symbols for Earth, indicated by U+1F728 🜨 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR VERDIGRIS
- Coptic cross, associated with Coptic Christians
- Celtic cross, associated with Christian in the Early Middle Ages
- Crosses in heraldry, including U+1F540 🕀 CIRCLED CROSS POMMEE, U+1F902 🤂 CIRCLED CROSS FORMEE and variants thereof
In mathematics and computing:
- Direct sum, an operation from abstract algebra
- Dilation (morphology), mathematical morphology
- Tensor product, a mathematical operation indicated by U+2297 ⊗ CIRCLED TIMES
- Exclusive or, a logical operation that outputs true only when inputs differ
In languages:
- Linear B, a Syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek including the ideogram U+100CF 𐃏 LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B243 WHEEL
- Teth, Phoenician letter
- Tifinagh, a Berber script including the letter U+2D32 ⴲ TIFINAGH LETTER YABH
Other uses
- Zodiac killer used a cross-circle as a signature for his letters
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8853 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8A 95 |
| UTF-16 | 22 95 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 22 95 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8A%95 |
| HTML hex reference | ⊕ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⊕ |
| HTML named entity | ⊕ |
| HTML named entity | ⊕ |
| alias | direct sum |
| alias | vector pointing into page |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 F2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 D1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 D1 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 92 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 92 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 22 51 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 22 51 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 CF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 CF |
| LATEX | \oplus |
| Adobe Glyph List | circleplus |
| Adobe Glyph List | pluscircle |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CIRCLED PLUS | |
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| Mathematical Operators | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Circled Plus | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Circled Plus | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Circled Plus | |
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| ✘ | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Yes | |
| Circled Plus | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Plus | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Circled Plus | |
| R |