Find more about the U+002D Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+002D |
|---|---|
| Name | Hyphen-minus |
| Alias | hyphen, dash, minus sign |
| Category | Dash Punctuation (Pd) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | - |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | - |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \002D |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+002DMarkdown [U+002D](https://everychar.com/code/U+002D) |
| Notes | Used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash, all of which have dedicated alternatives. |