Hyphenation Point
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Hyphenation Point 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+2027
About this symbol
‧, the hyphenation point, shows where a word may be broken across lines, as dictionaries do: dic‧tion‧ar‧ies. Unicode’s own notes give that example.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HYPHENATION POINT
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Visible symbol used to indicate correct positions for word breaking, as in dic·tion·ar·ies
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