Hyphen ‐

‐

U+2010

Symbol Meaning

What is the hyphen symbol?

The hyphen is not a punctuation mark. It is always part of the word; Therefore, it refers to spelling. The word hyphen comes from the Latin divisio — division. There are several hyphens in Unicode. The minus is different in length and height in the string (at least it should, however, the font decides everything). Non-breaking hyphen — does not allow anyone to break the line in this place.

Another hyphen:

Hyphen Bullet, Small Hyphen-Minus, Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus

The symbol “Hyphen” is included in the “Dashes” subblock of the “General Punctuation” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Unicode Name	Hyphen
Unicode Number
Entity	&hyphen;
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	General Punctuation
Unicode Subblock	Dashes
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2010
Simple case change	2010
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Dash	+
Hyphen	+
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 80 90	226 128 144	14844048	11100010 10000000 10010000
UTF-16BE	20 10	32 16	8208	00100000 00010000
UTF-16LE	10 20	16 32	4128	00010000 00100000
UTF-32BE	00 00 20 10	0 0 32 16	8208	00000000 00000000 00100000 00010000
UTF-32LE	10 20 00 00	16 32 0 0	270532608	00010000 00100000 00000000 00000000