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"­" U+00AD Soft Hyphen

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Character

­

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Unicode Data

The Unicode character U+00AD, displayed as ­ and named "Soft Hyphen" is located in the Latin-1 Supplement block. This character was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 (1993). Find its HTML entities, UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, hex values, and copy-paste details below.

Name:
Soft Hyphen
Category:
Format Other
Block:
Latin-1 Supplement
Script:
Common
Bidirectional:
Boundary Neutral
Mirrored:
No
Unicode Version:
Unicode 1.1

Character Encodings

HTML Entity - Named:

­

HTML Entity - Decimal:
­
HTML Entity - Hex:
­
Unicode:
U+00AD;
Decimal:
173
CSS:
\0000AD
Javascript:
\u00AD
Perl:
\x{AD}
Ruby:
\u{AD}
Python:
u'\u00AD'
UTF-8 Encoding:
C2AD
UTF-16 Encoding:
00AD
UTF-32 Encoding:
000000AD
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