Unicode Character "" U+00AD Soft Hyphen
Unicode Version 15.1
Summary
The unicode character "" at code point U+00AD is Soft Hyphen. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a format. The UTF-8 encoding of "" is 0xC2 0xAD and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00AD.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Soft Hyphen |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
| Alias | SHY (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ­ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ­ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ­ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00ad |