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Find more about the U+00AD Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+00AD |
|---|---|
| Name | Soft Hyphen |
| Abbreviation | SHY |
| Alias | discretionary hyphen |
| Category | Format Character (Cf) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | ­ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | ­ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | ­ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \00AD |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+00ADMarkdown [U+00AD](https://everychar.com/code/U+00AD) |
| Notes | Commonly abbreviated as SHY. An invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location. |