Circled Minus
Part of Math Symbols
Circled Minus 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+2296
About this symbol
⊖, a minus in a circle, stands for the symmetric difference of two sets in some books, the things in one set or the other but not both, which others write as Δ.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CIRCLED MINUS
- Also called
- Symmetric difference
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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