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Hyphen-Minus -

U+002D

Symbol Meaning

The Hyphen-Minus symbol is not a punctuation character. It is typically used both as a hyphen to connect words and as a minus sign in mathematical expressions or numerical ranges.

The word “hyphen” is derived from the Latin word “hyphen,” which in turn comes from the Greek word “huphen,” meaning “together”.

Unicode has several hyphen characters. The hyphen symbol ‐ differs in terms of width (it is bolder). The Hyphen Bullet ⁃ looks even bigger, and it's primarily used as a bullet point or list marker.

The symbol “Hyphen-Minus” is included in the “ASCII punctuation” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Synonyms

hyphen or minus sign.

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Unicode Name	Hyphen-Minus
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII punctuation
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 45

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	002D
Simple case change	002D
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Dash	+
Hyphen	+
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	2D	45	45	00101101
UTF-16BE	00 2D	0 45	45	00000000 00101101
UTF-16LE	2D 00	45 0	11520	00101101 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 2D	0 0 0 45	45	00000000 00000000 00000000 00101101
UTF-32LE	2D 00 00 00	45 0 0 0	754974720	00101101 00000000 00000000 00000000