+

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 ← ⁹ [U+2079] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁻ → [U+207B]

₊ U+208A, ₊ SUBSCRIPT PLUS SIGN ← ₉ [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

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

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 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

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

5. (mathematics) disjoint union, coproduct
6. (mathematics, logic) inclusive disjunction
7. (genetics) wild type
8. (botany) grafted hybrid
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

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

• (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. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of and.

Usage notes

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

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