Soft Hyphen
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 | ­ |
| 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 |