U+2296 "⊖" Circled Minus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⊖
U+2296 "⊖" Circled Minus is a mathematical symbol that represents the symmetric difference operation in set theory, where it denotes elements belonging to one of two sets but not to their intersection, and it is also used in linear algebra and logic to indicate subtraction or complement within a bounded or structured context, such as in vector spaces or binary operations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2296 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Minus |
| Block | Mathematical Operators |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⊖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⊖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2296 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002296 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2296 |
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 |