Unicode Character "‑" (U+2011)

The character ‑ (Non-Breaking Hyphen) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2011. 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 Non-Breaking Hyphen
Unicode Codepoint U+2011
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
Decomposition mapping

U+2011 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‑
HTML (hex) ‑
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%91
CSS \002011
JavaScript, JSON \u2011
C, C++, Java \u2011
Python \u2011
Rust \u{2011}
Ruby \u2011

How to type "‑"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x91
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2011
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002011

References