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U+002DHYPHEN-MINUS

Hyphen-minus (-) used for subtraction, negative values, and connecting compound words.

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Size (88px):
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HYPHEN-MINUS
U+002D • Decimal 45
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)

Instant Clipboard Export
Character Glyph (Raw)
-
Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+002D
Decimal Integer
45
HTML Entity (Decimal)
-
HTML Entity (Hex)
-
JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u002D
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u002D
Python 3
\u002D
C / C++ / Rust
\u002D
CSS Content
\00002D
URL Percent-Encoded
-
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0x2D
Base64 Stream
LQ==

Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications

Unicode 16.0 Standard
Unicode PlanePlane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF
Unicode BlockBasic Latin (U+0..U+7F)
General CategoryLo Other Letter / Symbol
Bidirectional ClassL (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR
Unicode Version IntroducedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 Byte Stream0x2D (1 Byte)
UTF-16 Code Units0x002D
UTF-32 Hexadecimal0x0000002D

Quick Character Summary

Glyph-
Hex CodepointU+002D
Decimal ID45
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)

Device & Font Support

99.9% Support
Apple (iOS / macOS)iOS 1.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 1.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 95+

ASCII core character supported on virtually every digital display and operating system in existence.