SOFT HYPHEN

Property Value
Codepoint U+00AD
Literal Character ­
Name SOFT HYPHEN
Sketch
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Aliases discretionary hyphen
Control Character no
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Subblock ASCII punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding c2 ad
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 ad (big endian)
HTML Entity ­
Perl string literal \x{AD}
Comments
  • commonly abbreviated as SHY
  • an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location