Technical information

Symbol
NameFullwidth hyphen-minus
Unicode numberU+FF0D
CategoryFullwidth ASCII variants
DescriptionThe Unicode character -, or U+FF0D, is known as the "Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus". It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Dash" category in the Unicode standard. This character is essentially the wide version of the standard hyphen-minus (-) that is used in ASCII. The fullwidth form is designed to occupy the same width as a fullwidth East Asian character, ensuring consistent spacing in mixed-language documents or when using fonts that provide both halfwidth and fullwidth characters. It functions as both a hyphen, to join words or syllables, and a minus sign, for mathematical operations. The specific visual representation can vary slightly based on the font and typography used, but it typically appears as a horizontal line centered vertically.

Encoding

HTML Entity-
HTML Entity (hex)-
URL Escape Code%EF%BC%8D
UTF-8 (hex)0xEF 0xBC 0x8D
UTF-8 (binary)11101111:10111100:10001101
UTF-160xFF0D
UTF-320x0000FF0D

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\uFF0D"
CSS Code\FF0D
JavaScript"\uFF0D"
Perl\x{FF0D}
Python 2u"\uFF0D"
Python 3\uFF0D
Ruby\u{FF0D}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this - in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#65293;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\FF0D";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References