‐ Hyphen

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WritingU+2010 · General Punctuation

Hyphen

U+2010 · decimal 8208 · General Punctuation

Every way to write it

6 forms
HTML entity

‐

This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.

CSS content

\2010

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u2010

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u2010

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%E2%80%90

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

E2 80 90

3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

Typing it without copying

system picker
macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search hyphen

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 8208

Groups it belongs to

Characters near it

8
Code pointU+2010
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo