U+2796 "➖" Heavy Minus Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
➖
U+2796 "➖" Heavy Minus Sign is a typographic symbol classified under Dingbats in the Unicode standard, representing a visually bold or thick horizontal line used to indicate subtraction, reduction, or a negative value, often appearing in user interfaces, mathematical contexts, and decorative text where a more prominent minus sign is desired for clarity or aesthetic emphasis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2796 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Heavy Minus Sign |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ➖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ➖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2796 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002796 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2796 |