Hyphen ‐
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.
| 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 |