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