Soft Hyphen ­

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U+00AD
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Symbol Meaning

Soft Hyphen. Latin-1 Supplement.

The symbol “Soft Hyphen” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Synonyms

discretionary hyphen.

Unicode Name Soft Hyphen
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity ­
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Alt 0173(English Keyboard Layout)
Version 1.1
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 00AD
Simple case change 00AD
Case_Ignorable +
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 C2 AD 194 173 49837 11000010 10101101
UTF-16BE 00 AD 0 173 173 00000000 10101101
UTF-16LE AD 00 173 0 44288 10101101 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 AD 0 0 0 173 173 00000000 00000000 00000000 10101101
UTF-32LE AD 00 00 00 173 0 0 0 2902458368 10101101 00000000 00000000 00000000
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