Minus Sign
Part of Math Symbols
Minus Sign has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- −
- Unicode
- U+2212
About this symbol
The true minus sign is a separate character from the hyphen on the keyboard: it is longer, and it sits at the height of the bar in a plus sign, so 5 − 3 lines up neatly. It first appeared in print with the plus sign in Johannes Widmann’s arithmetic book of 1489.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MINUS SIGN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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