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U+2011 · NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

Non-Breaking Hyphen

  • CodepointU+2011
  • NameNON-BREAKING HYPHEN
  • Decimal8209
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPd — Dash Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2011 (‑) is NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, a dash in the General Punctuation 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 a no-break variant of U+2010 ‐ (compatibility decomposition <noBreak>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+2010 ‐. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ‑

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 913 bytes
UTF-1620111 code unit
UTF-32000020114 bytes
HTML decimal&#8209;
HTML hex&#x2011;
CSS\2011in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2011
JSON\u2011
Python\u2011
Python\N{NON-BREAKING HYPHEN}by name
Java / C#\u2011
C / C++\u2011universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2011}
Go\u2011
Ruby\u2011
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8209)
URL-encoded%E2%80%91percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+2010 ‐
NFKDU+2010 ‐
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+002D-Hyphen-Minus U+02D7˗Modifier Letter Minus Sign U+06D4۔Arabic Full Stop U+2010‐Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2043⁃Hyphen Bullet U+2212−Minus Sign U+2796➖Minus U+FE58﹘Small Em Dash U+2CBAⲺCoptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Ni
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+200BZWSPZero Width Space U+200CZWNJZero Width Non-Joiner U+200DZWJZero Width Joiner U+200ELRMLeft-To-Right Mark U+200FRLMRight-To-Left Mark U+2010‐Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2014—Em Dash U+2015―Horizontal Bar U+2016‖Double Vertical Line U+2017‗Double Low Line