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