Soft Hyphen

U+00AD
BMP Unicode 1.1
Entity ­
Decimal ­
Hex ­

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+00AD
Decimal
173
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Format (Cf)
Script
Common
Bidi class
BN Boundary Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Soft Hyphen.

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Format Value
HTML Named Entity
­
HTML Decimal
­
HTML Hex
­
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C2 AD
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 AD
UTF-32 Hex
000000AD
CSS Escape
\AD
JavaScript Escape
\u00AD
Python Escape
\u00AD
URL Encoded
%C2%AD