Find more about the U+2238 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+2238 |
|---|---|
| Name | Dot Minus |
| Alias | saturating subtraction |
| Category | Math Symbol (Sm) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Mathematical Operators |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | ∸ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | ∸ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | ∸∸ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \2238 |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+2238Markdown [U+2238](https://everychar.com/code/U+2238) |
| Notes | Sometimes claimed as notation for symmetric set difference, but 2206 is preferred. |