U+2052 "⁒" Commercial Minus Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2052 "⁒" Commercial Minus Sign is a typographic symbol primarily used in commercial or financial contexts to indicate a discount, reduction, or subtraction, often appearing in European pricing and accounting documents as an alternative to the standard hyphen-minus or en dash. It resembles a short horizontal line with a small vertical bar through its center, distinguishing it from other minus-like characters by its specific design and intended usage in trade and currency notations. Historically rooted in German and Scandinavian typesetting, this character remains part of the Unicode standard to preserve legacy and specialized printing practices, though it is less common in modern digital text than basic dash characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2052 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Commercial Minus Sign |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2052 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002052 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2052 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |