Plus Sign +
Symbol Meaning
Plus Sign + depicts the operation of addition. It looks like a small cross vertically standing in the middle of the line. Similar Unicode characters are ±, ∓, ➕, ⩲.
“Plus” is translated to Latin as “more.” The first use of this symbol was noticed in 1489. It was Johann Widman who mentioned the plus sign for the first time in his commercial treatise to illustrate some kind of increase.
You can find this symbol in Unicode here Basic Latin0000–007F . Other mathematical operators are located in the following blocks: Mathematical Operators2200–22FF and Supplemental Mathematical Operators2A00–2AFF .
The symbol “Plus Sign” is included in the “ASCII math operator” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Plus Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | + |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII math operator |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 002B |
| Simple case change | 002B |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 2B | 43 | 43 | 00101011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 2B | 0 43 | 43 | 00000000 00101011 |
| UTF-16LE | 2B 00 | 43 0 | 11008 | 00101011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 2B | 0 0 0 43 | 43 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00101011 |
| UTF-32LE | 2B 00 00 00 | 43 0 0 0 | 721420288 | 00101011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |