Unicode Character "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus

Unicode Version 15.1

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Summary

The unicode character "-" at code point U+002D is Hyphen-Minus. It is a character in the Basic Latin block and is part of the Common script. The character is a dash punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "-" is 0x2D and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x002D.

General Properties

Code Point U+002D
Version Added 1.1
Name Hyphen-Minus
Block Basic Latin
General Category Dash Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class European Separator

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding -
HTML Hex Encoding -
UTF-8 Encoding 0x2D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x002D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000002D
C/C++/Java Escape \u002d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hyphen
East Asian Width Narrow
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Placeholder
Pattern Syntax Yes
Dash Yes
Hyphen Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break SContinue