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The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
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]
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 —
SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS U+FE63: Pd, dash Common － FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS U+FF0D: Pd, dash Common ֊ ARMENIAN HYPHEN U+058A: Pd, dash Armenian ᐀ CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN U+1400: Pd, dash Canadian Aboriginal ־ HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF U+05BE: Pd, dash Hebrew ᠆ MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT HYPHEN U+1806: Pd, dash Mongolian ອ YEZIDI HYPHENATION MARK U+ ...
4 Line feed is used for "end of line" in text files on Unix / Linux systems. 5 Carriage Return (accompanied by line feed) is used as "end of line" character by Windows, DOS, and most minicomputers other than Unix- / Linux-based systems 6 Control-O has been the "discard output" key. Output is not sent to the terminal, but discarded, until ...
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 +.
This is a hyphen (-). It has the same function as the symbol - (U+002D -HYPHEN-MINUS, keyboard-hyphen).It comes in handy when an editor wishes to make explicit that they really do intend a hyphen, to discourage other editors from changing it to an ndash or other punctuation, or when using an explicit hyphen may cause technical issues, such as with the -{wiki syntax for language converter.
{{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".