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SHY
U+00AD · SOFT HYPHEN

Soft Hyphen

  • CodepointU+00AD
  • NameSOFT HYPHEN
  • Decimal173
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00AD is SOFT HYPHEN, an invisible format character in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: SHY.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 AD2 bytes
UTF-1600AD1 code unit
UTF-32000000AD4 bytes
HTML named­named character reference
HTML decimal­
HTML hex­
CSS\ADin content: "…"
JavaScript\u00AD
JSON\u00AD
Python\u00AD
Python\N{SOFT HYPHEN}by name
Java / C#\u00AD
C / C++\u00ADuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{AD}
Go\u00AD
Ruby\u00AD
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(173)
URL-encoded%C2%ADpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00A7§Section Sign U+00A8¨Diaeresis U+00A9©Copyright Sign U+00AAªFeminine Ordinal Indicator U+00AB«Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark U+00AC¬Not Sign U+00AE®Registered Sign U+00AF¯Macron U+00B0°Degree Sign U+00B1±Plus-Minus Sign U+00B2²Superscript Two U+00B3³Superscript Three