Commercial Minus Sign
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Commercial Minus Sign 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+2052
About this symbol
⁒, the commercial minus sign, means “less” or “minus” in German and Scandinavian business documents, as in a discount taken off a price. Swedish calls it piska, the whip, and it is often written as ./. when the sign is missing.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN
- Also called
- Abzüglich (German), med avdrag av (Swedish), piska (Swedish, “whip”)
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 3.2 (2002)
- Unicode notes
- A common glyph variant and fallback representation looks like ./.
- May also be used as a dingbat to indicate correctness
- Used in Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a related borrowed form with different sound
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