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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
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity ‐
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

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