➖ Meaning – Heavy Minus Sign Emoji

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The Heavy Minus Sign Emoji was added to the Symbols category in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0 standard. This is a mature emoji and it should work on most devices.

Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, Apple style
Apple
Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, Microsoft style
Microsoft
Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, Samsung style
Samsung
Browser / Native
Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, Emoji One style
Emoji One
Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, Facebook style
Facebook Messenger
Heavy Minus Sign Emoji, LG style
LG
n/a
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Heavy Minus Sign Emoji details

Symbol to copy
Uncode codepoint
U+2796
Unicode name
Heavy Minus Sign
Category
Symbols / Other Symbols
Keywords
math
Windows Alt-code
Alt+2796
Decimal HTML Entity
➖
Hex HTML Entity
➖
UTF-16 hex
0x2796
Wikipedia
n/a
Version
Unicode 6.0
Year
2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Heavy Minus Sign Emoji translations

LanguageCLDR NameKeywords
DeutschMinuszeichenMinus
Françaissigne Moinsmoins
Русскийминусвычитание, знак вычитания, значок, значок вычитания
Españolsigno menosmenos, signo
Italianosimbolo della sottrazionemeno, sottrazione
Portuguêssímbolo de subtraçãomenos, sinal, sinal de menor, sinal de menos
Polskigruby znak minusodjąć

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How to type Heavy Minus Sign Emoji

There are number of methods to type Heavy Minus Sign Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste ➖ emoji

It's very easy to get Heavy Minus Sign Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read ➖ meaning and look at ➖ pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

Heavy Minus Sign Emoji HTML-entities

HTML entites are intended for using on websites. You can put Heavy Minus Sign Emoji html entity code in decimal or hexadecimal form right in your message, and it will be translated into graphical representation of Heavy Minus Sign Emoji after you submit.

➖ emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

  1. Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.
  2. Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.
  3. Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit
  4. Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.

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