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Technical information
| Symbol | - | |
| Name | Hyphen-minus | |
| Unicode number | U+002D | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character -, or U+002D, is known as the "Hyphen-Minus". It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Dash, Punctuation" category in the Unicode standard. The hyphen-minus is used in various ways in different contexts. It can function as a hyphen to connect words in writing, as a minus sign in mathematical equations, or to indicate a range between numbers, among other uses. It's a versatile character and one of the most common in any form of written communication. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | - | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | - | |
| URL Escape Code | - | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2D | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x002D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002D" | |
| CSS Code | \002D | |
| JavaScript | "\u002D" | |
| Perl | \x{002D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002D" | |
| Python 3 | \u002D | |
| Ruby | \u{002D} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this - in sentence and in bold like this - and in italic like this -.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>-</span>
span {
content: "\002D";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana