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U+2011 CHARACTER

NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
Code Point U+2011
Decimal Value 8209
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 91
UTF-16 Code Unit 2011
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002011
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 11 LE: 11 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 11 LE: 11 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ‑
HTML Hexadecimal ‑
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002011
JavaScript (ES6) \u2011
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2011
JSON Escape \u2011
Python \u2011
PHP "\u{2011}"
Java "\u2011"
C / C++ "\u2011"
Rust '\u{2011}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%91

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <noBreak> 2010 noBreak
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<noBreak>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2011 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

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

Identifier U+2011

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