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]

Character variations

⁺ U 207A, ⁺ SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN ← ⁹ [U 2079] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁻ → [U 207B]

₊ U 208A, ₊ SUBSCRIPT PLUS SIGN ← ₉ [U 2089] Superscripts and Subscripts ₋ → [U 208B]

Text style	Emoji style
➕︎	➕️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
➕ 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

Description

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

Glyph origin

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

Symbol

(English symbol name plus sign or plus)

1. (arithmetic, algebra) Addition, additive operation.

   3 2 = 5

2. (mathematics) Explicitly indicates that the next number is positive.

   5 is different from −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.

   $\lim _{x\to a^{ }}f(x)$ is the same as $\lim _{x\downarrow a}\,f(x)$

5. (mathematics) A disjoint union, a coproduct.
6. (mathematics, logic) An inclusive disjunction.
7. (genetics) A wild type.
8. (botany) A grafted hybrid.
9. (programming) A string concatenation in some programming languages (that might be ambiguous with an 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) An affirmative result from a laboratory test.
14. (electricity) An anode.
15. Indicating north.
16. (music) Augmented.
17. (Roman Catholicism) Written by a bishop before his signature.

Usage notes

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

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations: .

Synonyms

• ﬩
• (symbol for and): &, ⁊

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “addition or positiveness”): - or −, sometimes ÷

Derived terms

• A , B , O , AB , Rh
• A , B , C , D
• ve
• 1

See also

• plus sign
• (chess):
• ⧺
• ⧻
• 十

Conjunction

1. (computing) When placed between key names, indicates that they should be pressed simultaneously.

   Press Ctrl C to copy!

2. (siglum, informal) and

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations: .

Adverb

1. (text messaging, slang) more

English

Conjunction

1. Abbreviation of and.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of and.
2. (slang) Used to connect two elements: and, plus.
   • 2024 September 16, Mehera Bonner, “Wondering What Dan Levy Is Making for Hosting the 2024 Emmys? Here's a Deep Dive on His Net Worth!”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     Despite winning every award under the sun and being critically acclaimed beloved, Schitt's Creek didn't become household-name-levels of popular until its last few seasons.

Usage notes

• In stenoscript, this is only used for the conjunction 'and'. The sound sequence /Vnd/ is written —.

See also

• A
• A

 

Chinese

Conjunction

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