SOFT HYPHEN

Codepoint

U+00AD

Literal Character

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Name

SOFT HYPHEN

Sketch

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Aliases

discretionary hyphen

Control Character

no

Block

Latin-1 Supplement

Subblock

Latin-1 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