U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

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Decimal / Nº
8209
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2011, officially named NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Dash Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8209 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 91 Copied!
UTF-16 20 11 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 11 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%91 Copied!
HTML hex reference ‑ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2011' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2011 Copied!
C and C++ \u2011 Copied!
C# \u2011 Copied!
CSS \002011 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8209) Copied!
Go \u2011 Copied!
JavaScript \u2011 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2011} Copied!
JSON \u2011 Copied!
Java \u2011 Copied!
Lua \u{2011} Copied!
Matlab char(8209) Copied!
Perl \x{2011} Copied!
PHP \u{2011} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2011' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2011} Copied!
Python \u2011 Copied!
Ruby \u{2011} Copied!
Rust \u{2011} Copied!