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Technical information

Symbol-
NameHyphen-minus
Unicode numberU+002D
CategoryASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character -, or U+002D, is known as the "Hyphen-Minus". It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Dash, Punctuation" category in the Unicode standard. The hyphen-minus is used in various ways in different contexts. It can function as a hyphen to connect words in writing, as a minus sign in mathematical equations, or to indicate a range between numbers, among other uses. It's a versatile character and one of the most common in any form of written communication.

Encoding

HTML Entity-
HTML Entity (hex)-
URL Escape Code-
UTF-8 (hex)0x2D
UTF-8 (binary)00101101
UTF-160x002D
UTF-320x0000002D

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u002D"
CSS Code\002D
JavaScript"\u002D"
Perl\x{002D}
Python 2u"\u002D"
Python 3\u002D
Ruby\u{002D}

Preview

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

Font size:

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#45;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\002D";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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

References