+

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See also: +/-, [U+207A SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN], 𑀓 [U+11013 BRAHMI LETTER KA], and Appendix:Variations of "t"

+ U+002B, +
PLUS SIGN
*
[U+002A]
Basic Latin ,
[U+002C]
U+207A, ⁺
SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN

[U+2079]
Superscripts and Subscripts
[U+207B]
U+208A, ₊
SUBSCRIPT PLUS SIGN

[U+2089]
Superscripts and Subscripts
[U+208B]
U+2795, ➕
HEAVY PLUS SIGN

[U+2794]
Dingbats
[U+2796]
U+FE62, ﹢
SMALL PLUS SIGN

[U+FE61]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE63]
U+FF0B, +
FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN

[U+FF0A]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF0C]

Translingual[edit]

Presentations of ➕︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
➕︎ ➕️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Description[edit]

Two lines crossed in the middle: one vertical line and one horizontal line.

Glyph origin[edit]

From a ligature of Latin et (and). Compare & and of same meaning.

Symbol[edit]

+

  1. (arithmetic, algebra) addition, additive operation
    3 + 2 = 5
  2. (mathematics) Explicitly indicates that the next number is positive
    +5 is different than −5
  3. (informal) "or more"; indicates that a number is the minimum quantity or amount
    This project is going to take 10+ years to complete. (10 or more years)
  4. (mathematics) from the positive side
    is the same as
  5. (mathematics) disjoint union, coproduct
  6. (mathematics, logic) inclusive disjunction
  7. (genetics) wild type
  8. (botany) grafted hybrid[1]
  9. (programming) string concatenation in some programming languages (that might be ambiguous with additive operation)
    "My name is " + name + ". I am " + age + " years old."
  10. (regular expressions) Detects one or more occurrences of the preceding element.
    The string ab+c matches "abc", "abbc", "abbbc", and so on, but not "ac".
  11. (chess notation) check
  12. A placeholder standing for the international call prefix in phone numbers.
    Sure, call me if you want. My number is +496919725.
  13. (medicine) affirmative result from laboratory test
  14. (electricity) anode
  15. north
  16. (music) augmented

Usage notes[edit]

The + symbol is called the plus sign in English (see there for translations).

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:+.

Synonyms[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

  • (addition or positiveness): - or , sometimes ÷

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

+

  1. (computing) When placed between key names, indicates that they should be pressed simultaneously.
    Press Ctrl+C to copy!
  2. (siglum, informal) and

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:+.

Adverb[edit]

+

  1. (text messaging, slang) more

References[edit]

  1. ^ “Botanical symbols: a new symbol set for new images”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society[1], volume 162, issue 2, February 2010, →DOI, retrieved 2023-03-06, pages 117–129

English[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

+

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of and.

Usage notes[edit]

  • (stenoscript) This is only used for the conjunction 'and'. The sound sequence /Vnd/ is written .

Chinese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
Particularly: “Mandarin”

Conjunction[edit]

+

  1. (neologism, Covid-19) denotes the immigration policy where the preceding number is the number of days required for quarantine and the following number is the number of days for medical monitoring
    7+3
    (the policy of) 7 days of quarantine followed by 3 days of medical monitoring