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The hyphen-minus symbol -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]
Modifier Letter Minus Sign · U+02D8 ˘ 728 Breve: 0363 in WGL4: U+02D9 ˙ 729 Dot Above 0364 U+02DA ˚ 730 Ring Above 0365 U+02DB ˛ 731 Ogonek: 0366 U+02DC ˜ 732 Small Tilde 0367 U+02DD ˝ 733 Double Acute Accent: 0368 U+02DE ˞ 734 Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook · U+02DF ˟ 735 Modifier Letter Cross Accent 0369 for Swedish dictionary use U+ ...
In the TeX typesetting languages, a single hyphen-minus (-) renders a hyphen, a single hyphen-minus in math mode ($-$) renders a minus sign, two hyphen-minuses (--) renders an en dash, and three hyphen-minuses (---) renders an em dash. The hyphen-minus character is also often used when specifying command-line options. The character is usually ...
On iOS Devices, tap and hold (long press) the -on-screen key to display choices for the en dash "–" and em dash "—". 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).
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 ...
hyphen-minus [7] u+003c < less-than sign u+003d = equals sign u+003e > greater-than sign u+005e ^ circumflex accent u+007c | vertical line u+007e ~ tilde
To insert a dash or minus sign, use the toolbar below the edit box. Click where you want the character to be inserted, select "Insert" from the pull-down menu, and then: To insert an en dash (–), click on the first character (the shorter dash). To insert an em dash (—), click on the second character (the longer dash).
A Unicode character is assigned a unique Name (na). [1] The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, hyphen-minus and space.Some sequences are excluded: names beginning with a space or hyphen, names ending with a space or hyphen, repeated spaces or hyphens, and space after hyphen are not allowed.