U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN

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Decimal / Nº
173
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00AD, officially named SOFT HYPHEN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Format, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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173 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 AD Copied!
UTF-16 00 AD Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 AD Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%AD Copied!
HTML hex reference ­ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00AD' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00AD Copied!
C and C++ \u00ad Copied!
C# \u00ad Copied!
CSS \0000AD Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(173) Copied!
Go \u00ad Copied!
JavaScript \u00AD Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00ad} Copied!
JSON \u00AD Copied!
Java \u00AD Copied!
Lua \u{00AD} Copied!
Matlab char(173) Copied!
Perl \x{00AD} Copied!
PHP \u{00ad} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00AD' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00AD} Copied!
Python \u00ad Copied!
Ruby \u{00ad} Copied!
Rust \u{00ad} Copied!