Hyphen

U+2010
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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+2010
Decimal
8208
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Dash Punctuation (Pd)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Dash

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 — Hyphen.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
‐
HTML Hex
‐
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 90
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 10
UTF-32 Hex
00002010
CSS Escape
\2010
JavaScript Escape
\u2010
Python Escape
\u2010
URL Encoded
%E2%80%90
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Hyphen as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.