Occasionally I've seen the symbol "plus or minus" written in fractional form, like this:
Is there a Unicode character for this?
Note: I already know about the standard "plus-minus sign" symbol, but it won't work in this context. I'm specifically looking for a version with the fraction bar.
Type the following key combination : Alt + 0 1 7 7 : ±
Microsoft Word offers a pre-defined shortcut key for some symbols such as plus-minus sign and minus-plus sign: Type 00b1 or 00B1 (does not matter, uppercase or lowercase) and immediately press Alt+X to insert the plus-minus symbol: ± Type 2213 and press Alt+X to insert the minus-plus symbol: ∓
Unicode Character “⬞” (U+2B1E)
Unicode covers all the characters for all the writing systems of the world, modern and ancient. It also includes technical symbols, punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text.
You can approximate it to some extent with a superscript plus (U+207A), a division slash (U+2215) and a subscript minus (U+208B):
However, it requires font support to get right. Especially the super- and subscript +/− are not available in most fonts, so it might just render horribly.
For reference, that's how it looks for me (better than five years ago, but still somewhat broken):
However, using Cambria Math in Word 2010 it looks like this:
Which probably is exactly how it should look like (follows the same typesetting rules as fractions).
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