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Hyphen-Minus

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

About this character

Hyphen-Minus belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+002D. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+002D
Hex
002D
Decimal
45
HTML
-
CSS
\2D
JavaScript
\u002D
Python
\u002D
UTF-8
2D

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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