Unicode Character 'HYPHEN-MINUS' (U+002D)

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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 +002D
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 (002d)
UTF-32 (decimal) 45
C/C++/Java source code "\u002D"
Python source code u"\u002D"
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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