Unicode Character "­" (U+00AD)

The character ­ (SOFT HYPHEN) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00AD. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement 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 SOFT HYPHEN
Unicode Codepoint U+00AD
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00AD Conversion

HTML (decimal) ­
HTML (hex) ­
HTML (named) ­
URL Escape Code %C2%AD
CSS \00AD
JavaScript \u{00AD}
JSON \u00AD
C, C++ \U000000AD
Java \u00AD
Python \U000000AD
Rust \u{00AD}
Ruby \u{00AD}

How to type "­"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xAD
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00AD
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000AD

References