Minus Emoji

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Google (Noto Color Emoji 16.0)
Google

Noto Color Emoji 16.0

Related Emojis

The emoji is often associated with the following emojis:

🧮♾️✔️🏫✖️🟰

Meaning and Usage

The minus emoji depicts a simple horizontal line, resembling the mathematical minus sign used to represent subtraction, negative value, or a decrease in some quantity. It's commonly used in conversations about mathematics, reducing quantities, or to metaphorically indicate something lacking or absent.


Emoji name: minus

Tags: - | | heavy | math | sign


Categories

✖️ Math

Chat Examples

  • Solving that math equation was tricky; I ended up with a negative value 📐
  • Feeling down today 😞
  • Our budget is tight this month 💸
  • Reducing screen time for my eyes 📱
  • Need less sugar in my coffee

Images

Check out how the emoji appears on different devices and platforms:

Google

Noto Color Emoji 16.0

Google (Noto Color Emoji 16.0)

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Color

Microsoft - Fluent Emoji (Color)

Microsoft

Fluent Emoji - Flat

Microsoft - Fluent Emoji (Flat)

Mozilla

FxEmojis 1.7.9

Mozilla (FxEmojis v1.7.9)

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 15.1

OpenMoji 15.1

Twitter / X

Twemoji 14.0

Twitter / X (Twemoji 14.0)

Google

Noto Emoji 16.0

Google (Noto Emoji 16.0)

Your Browser

Default Emoji

Emoji Support and Compatibility

Google

Android 4.3

Microsoft

Windows 8.0

Image History

Google

Microsoft

Mozilla

OpenMoji

Twitter / X

Word Associations with the "Minus" Emoji

The ➖ is often associated with: difference, decrease, math symbol, calculate, subtract, subtraction, negative sign, arithmetic minus and deducting .

Minus Emoji In Most Popular Languages

Discover the name of this emoji in various languages:

LanguageEmoji Name
Arabicعلامة طرح
Chinese
Chinese (Traditional)
Frenchmoins
Germanminus
Hindiऋण
Italiansottrazione
Japaneseマイナス
Korean빼기
Portuguesesímbolo de subtração
Spanishmenos
Turkisheksi
Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v46

Emoji Codes for Developers

Shortcode (Discord):heavy_minus_sign:
Shortcode (GitHub):heavy_minus_sign:
Shortcode (Slack):heavy_minus_sign:
HTML Dec➖
HTML Hex➖
CSS\2796
C, C++ & Python\u2796
Java, JavaScript & JSON\u2796
Perl\x{2796}
PHP & Ruby\u{2796}
Punycodexn--5fi
URL Escape Code%E2%9E%96

Unicode Data

Unicode Code Point(s)
  • ➖: U+2796
Unicode VersionUnicode 6.0
Emoji VersionEmoji 1.0
Proposals

L2/09‑026

L2/07‑257

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