➖ Minus emoji

Copy the ➖ Minus emoji (U+2796) from Emoji 0.6 (2010), with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes. Keywords: -, −, heavy, math.

CLDR name: minus
Code point: U+2796
Type: Single code point
Group: Symbols
Subgroup: Math
Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
Keywords: -, −, heavy, math, sign

About this emoji

➖ Minus is an emoji in the Symbols group, math subgroup, first released in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the label Unicode gives to characters that became emoji with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, before emoji had version numbers of their own.

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords -, −, heavy, math and sign; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+2796, named HEAVY MINUS SIGN in the Unicode standard.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`➖`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`➖`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2796";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2796"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2796"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{HEAVY MINUS SIGN}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%9E%96`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9E 96`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2796`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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