Unicode Character 'HYPHEN-MINUS' (U+002D) | 
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HYPHEN-MINUS
			HYPHEN-MINUS
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | HYPHEN-MINUS | 
| Block | Basic Latin | 
| Category | Punctuation, Dash [Pd] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | European Number Separator [ES] | 
| Mirror | N | 
| Index entries | hyphus hyphen or minus sign HYPHEN-MINUS minus sign, hyphen or  | 
		
| Comments | hyphen, dash minus sign used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash, all of which have dedicated alternatives  | 
		
| See Also | soft hyphen U+00AD modifier letter minus sign U+02D7 hyphen U+2010 non-breaking hyphen U+2011 figure dash U+2012 en dash U+2013 hyphenation point U+2027 hyphen bullet U+2043 minus sign U+2212 roman uncia sign U+10191  | 
		
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | - | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | - | 
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +2D Alt 045 Alt 45  | 
	
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2D (2d) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101101 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x002D (002d) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 45 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x0000002D (2d) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 45 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u002D" | 
| Python source code | u"\u002D" | 
| More... | |
| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | - | 
| string.toLowerCase() | - | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_EUROPEAN_NUMBER_SEPARATOR [4] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 20 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | No | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |