Unicode Character "‐" (U+2010)

The character ‐ (Hyphen) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2010. It is encoded in the General Punctuation 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
Unicode Codepoint U+2010
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

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

U+2010 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‐
HTML (hex) ‐
HTML (named) ‐
URL Escape Code %E2%80%90
CSS \002010
JavaScript, JSON \u2010
C, C++, Java \u2010
Python \u2010
Rust \u{2010}
Ruby \u2010

How to type "‐"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 1 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 1 0. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x90
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2010
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002010

Characters based on "‐" (U+2010)

References