SOFT HYPHEN

U+00AD

Unicode Block

C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)

Code

00AD

Code Point

173

Aliases

discretionary hyphen

Notes

commonly abbreviated as SHY

an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location

Character Properties

General Category

Letter, Other (Lo)

Bidi Class

L (Left-to-Right)

Combining Class

0 (Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined)

Block

C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)

Character Encoding

UTF-8

0xC20xAD

UTF-16

0x00AD

UTF-32

0x000000AD

Copy & Paste Codes

Character

Unicode Escape

\u{00AD}

HTML Entity (Decimal)

HTML Entity (Hex)

CSS Code

\00AD

JavaScript

String.fromCodePoint(0x00AD)

Python

chr(0x00AD)