Hyphen-minus vs Minus Sign
Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.
Property Comparison
| Property | Hyphen-minus | Minus Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+002D
|
U+2212
|
| Decimal |
45
|
8722
|
| HTML Entity |
-
|
−
|
| HTML Decimal |
-
|
−
|
| HTML Hex |
-
|
−
|
| UTF-8 |
2D
|
E2 88 92
|
| UTF-16 |
00 2D
|
22 12
|
| UTF-32 |
0000002D
|
00002212
|
| CSS Escape |
\2D
|
\2212
|
| JS Escape |
\u002D
|
\u2212
|
| Python Escape |
\u002D
|
\u2212
|
| URL Encoded |
-
|
%E2%88%92
|
| Category |
Dash Punctuation (Pd)
|
Math Symbol (Sm)
|
| Block |
Basic Latin
|
Mathematical Operators
|
| Script |
Common
|
Common
|
| Bidi Class |
ES
|
ES
|
| Unicode Version |
1.1
|
1.1
|
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.
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