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Heavy Minus Sign

Group: Dingbats

Keywords

About this character

Heavy Minus Sign belongs to the Dingbats group and is encoded at U+2796. 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+2796
Hex
2796
Decimal
10134
HTML
➖
CSS
\2796
JavaScript
\u2796
Python
\u2796
UTF-8
E2 9E 96

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

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