HYPHEN-MINUS

Codepoint
U+002D
Literal Character
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Name
HYPHEN-MINUS
Sketch
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Aliases
hyphen, dash
minus sign
Control Character
no
Block
Basic Latin
Subblock
ASCII punctuation
UTF-8 byte encoding
2d
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 2d (big endian)
HTML Entity
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LaTeX expression
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Perl string literal
\x{2D}
Comments
  • used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash, all of which have dedicated alternatives
See Also
U+00AD: soft hyphen
U+02D7: modifier letter minus sign
U+2010: hyphen
U+2011: non-breaking hyphen
U+2012: figure dash
U+2013: en dash
U+2027: hyphenation point
U+2043: hyphen bullet
U+2212: minus sign
U+10191: roman uncia sign