Unicode Character "-" (U+002D)

The character - (Hyphen-Minus) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+002D. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as -.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Hyphen-Minus
Unicode Codepoint U+002D
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Basic Latin
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Separator (ES)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Dash Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+002D Conversion

HTML (decimal) -
HTML (hex) -
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %2D
CSS \00002D
JavaScript, JSON \u002D
C, C++, Java \u002D
Python \u002D
Rust \u{002D}
Ruby \u002D

How to type "-"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 2 D. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 2 D. Release Alt.

Preview

  • -
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • -
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • -
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0x2D
UTF-16 (hex) 0x002D
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000002D

Characters based on "-" (U+002D)

References