Minus

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Shortcode: :heavy_minus_sign:
Shortcode: :minus:
Unicode: U+2796
HTML: ➖
CSS: \2796
JavaScript: "\u{2796}"
URL: %E2%9E%96

What ➖ means

A heavy minus sign. It means subtract, less, take away, or a downside.

It marks cons in a list, a loss in a score, or something removed from a plan. In social posts a row of ➖➖➖ often works as a divider line between sections, since it lines up neatly.

Facts

Minus ➖ is an emoji in the symbols category, under math. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :heavy_minus_sign: or :minus:. People also look for it with words like “-”, “heavy”, “math”, or “sign”.