U+2213

MINUS-OR-PLUS SIGN

Sm — Math Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
8723

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent MINUS-OR-PLUS SIGN in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 88 93 226 136 147 3
UTF-16 LE 13 22 19 34 2
UTF-16 BE 22 13 34 19 2
UTF-32 LE 13 22 00 00 19 34 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 22 13 0 0 34 19 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
∓
∓
\2213
\u2213
%E2%88%93
\u2213
8723

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
88
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
93
UTF-8: E2 88 93 · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+2213

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ET — European Terminator

Nearby Characters in Mathematical Operators