➖ Minus
Copy and paste this emoji: ➖
Emoji Meaning
1
A slim blue horizontal bar — the familiar icon for subtraction.
2
This is a thick, horizontal gray line — the emoji represents a "minus" sign. It's an arithmetic operation used to subtract one number from another to find the result.
You’ll spot this emoji not only in conversations about mathematics, but across a wide range of topics. For instance, people use emojis like this to highlight the weaknesses of a product or item, labelling them as a "minus."
Apple Name
- ➖ Minus Symbol
Unicode Name
- ➖ Heavy Minus Sign
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
➖ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2796
Shortcodes
- Emojipedia
- Github, Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9E%96 |
| Punycode | xn--5fi |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9E 96 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2796 |
| C, C++, Python | \u2796 |
| CSS | \2796 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2796} |
| Perl | \x{2796} |
| HTML hex | ➖ |
| HTML dec | ➖ |