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Hyphen

Group: Punctuation

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About this character

Hyphen belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2010. 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+2010
Hex
2010
Decimal
8208
HTML
‐
CSS
\2010
JavaScript
\u2010
Python
\u2010
UTF-8
E2 80 90

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

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