“-” U+002D: Hyphen-Minus

– Hyphen-Minus

U+002D

ℹ️ About

The Hyphen-Minus (U+002D) is one of the most overloaded characters in modern computing. It serves three distinct roles: a punctuation hyphen for joining words, a minus sign for arithmetic, and a dash for ranges. It belongs to the “Dash Punctuation” category and acts as a “European Separator” in bidirectional text.

⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with (Em Dash U+2014) or (En Dash U+2013).

Codes

HTML -
CSS \002D
Python \u002D

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