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Circled Minus

Group: Mathematics

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About this character

Circled Minus belongs to the Mathematics group and is encoded at U+2296. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+2296
Hex
2296
Decimal
8854
HTML
⊖
CSS
\2296
JavaScript
\u2296
Python
\u2296
UTF-8
E2 8A 96

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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