U+2296 Circled Minus
U+2296 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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 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+2296 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “circled minus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, 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 |
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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 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CIRCLED MINUS | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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✘ | |
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Other | |
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Other | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
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