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Glyph for U+002D
Source: Noto Sans

U+002D Hyphen-Minus

U+002D was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Dash Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as hyphen, dash and minus sign.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as European number separator from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It will not end a sentence. U+002D offers a line break opportunity after its position unless inside numbers. The glyph can be confused with 17 other glyphs.

The CLDR project calls this character “hyphen-minus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dash, hyphen, minus.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The hyphen-minus symbol - is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash so it is also used for these. The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called hyphen–(minus). The character is referred to as a hyphen, a minus sign, or a dash according to the context where it is being used.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 45
UTF-8 2D
UTF-16 00 2D
UTF-32 00 00 00 2D
URL-Quoted %2D
HTML hex reference -
alias hyphen
alias dash
alias minus sign
AGL: Latin-1 hyphen
AGL: Latin-2 hyphen
AGL: Latin-3 hyphen
AGL: Latin-4 hyphen
AGL: Latin-5 hyphen
Adobe Glyph List hyphen
digraph -

Related Characters

Confusables

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HYPHEN-MINUS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Basic Latin
General Category (gc) Dash Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) European Separator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✔
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✔
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Consonant_Placeholder
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Sentence Continue
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) narrow
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Hyphen
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+002D Hyphen-Minus
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R