Hyphen
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Hyphen has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ‐
- Unicode
- U+2010
About this symbol
The keyboard’s - is really a hyphen-minus, one key doing the jobs of the hyphen, the minus sign and, on typewriters, the dash. Unicode gives the true hyphen ‐ its own character, kept apart from the minus sign −, so typesetting software knows which is which.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HYPHEN
- Type
- Dash
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Dashes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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