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The four hyphen/dash-like characters used in Wikipedia are: - is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign – is an en dash (Unicode 2013). This can also be entered from the Special characters: Symbols bar above the text-entry field; it's between the m³ and —
The symbol -, known in Unicode as hyphen-minus, is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. [1] The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, [2] where it was called hyphen (minus). [3]
Hyphen: Dash, Hyphen-minus-Hyphen-minus: Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign ☞ Index: Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) · Interpunct: Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator, Dot operator ‽ Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') Inverted question and exclamation marks ¡ Inverted exclamation mark: Exclamation mark, Interrobang ...
0 000 Null character: NUL U+0001 1 001 Start of Heading: SOH / Ctrl-A U+0002 2 002 Start of Text: STX / Ctrl-B U+0003 3 003 End-of-text character: ETX / Ctrl-C 1: U+0004 4 004 End-of-transmission character: EOT / Ctrl-D 2: U+0005 5 005 Enquiry character: ENQ / Ctrl-E U+0006 6 006 Acknowledge character: ACK / Ctrl-F U+0007 7 007 Bell character ...
Minus signs may also be coded by −. Another kind of hyphen is the non‑breaking hyphen, available in the Wiki code as {}. This character has the sole purpose to be a non-breaking word joiner. Unlike the hyphen-minus, the dashes and minus sign do not have any special role in the MediaWiki markup language.
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.
{{Delink question hyphen-minus|1=input text}} Delinks links to ? and -, for fields where these characters are often used as placeholders, and where links to the articles on the punctuation characters aren't useful. You may substitute this template - that is, if used as {{subst:Delink question hyphen-minus}}, the resulting wikicode is "clean".
, a string of two hyphen-minus characters, may approximate or refer to: En dash (–) Em dash (—), as a typewriter approximation; Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter; For Unix commands, used as a prefix for command options. By itself, it typically means the end of command options. The decrement operator in some ...