Plus Sign
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 43 on the numeric keypad to insert plus sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+43
- HTML entity
- +
- Unicode
- U+002B
About this symbol
The plus sign is thought to come from a shortened form of the Latin et, and. It first appeared in print, with the minus sign, in a German arithmetic book by Johannes Widmann in 1489, where the two marked surplus and deficit.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PLUS SIGN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII math operator
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.