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➖ Minus
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➖ Emoji meaning
Cross it off the list! Used for reduction, rejection, or separation.
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➖ Meaning
Cross it off the list! Used for reduction, rejection, or separation.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Heavy plus sign vs heavy minus sign; both arithmetic operators used generically for ‘math’.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Minus” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ heavy
In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
minus sign
Emoji title after
minus
In the release of Emoji 12.0 and Unicode 12.0 in 2019 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
heavy minus sign
Emoji title after
minus sign
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ - + − + sign
Keywords removed
- heavy minus sign
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ heavy minus sign
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ math + minus
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- minus
