Soft Hyphen

U+00AD

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
Entity
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock	Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 0173(English Keyboard Layout)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	00AD
Simple case change	00AD
Case_Ignorable	+
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point	+
scripts	Common
Hyphen	+

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