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Hyphen HTML entity ‐
‐ is the HTML entity for Hyphen ‐ (U+2010). Copy the decimal ‐ and hex ‐ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
‐- Also written
‐- Code point
- U+2010
- Unicode name
- HYPHEN
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Dash punctuation (Pd)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ‐Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ‐Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ‐Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2010";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2010"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2010"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{HYPHEN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%90Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 903 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20101 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The unambiguous hyphen (U+2010). Most text uses the keyboard hyphen-minus, which serves as both hyphen and minus; this one only ever means hyphen. Not every font includes it, so test before using it widely. ‐ is an alias, despite the name.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).