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U+2010 CHARACTER

HYPHEN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HYPHEN
Code Point U+2010
Decimal Value 8208
General Category Dash Punctuation (Pd) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 90
UTF-16 Code Unit 2010
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002010
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 10 LE: 10 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 10 LE: 10 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ‐
HTML Hexadecimal ‐
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002010
JavaScript (ES6) \u2010
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2010
JSON Escape \u2010
Python \u2010
PHP "\u{2010}"
Java "\u2010"
C / C++ "\u2010"
Rust '\u{2010}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%90

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ON — Other Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2010 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A ‐ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A ‐ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ‐ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ‐ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name HYPHEN

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2010

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