Editing Hyphen (section)

== Unicode ==
Unicode has multiple hyphen characters:<ref name="PropList">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/PropList.txt|title=Unicode 16.0 UCD: PropList.txt|date=2024-05-31|access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref>
* {{unichar|002D|HYPHEN-MINUS|nlink=hyphen-minus|html=}}, a character of multiple uses
* {{unichar|00AD|SOFT HYPHEN|nlink=soft hyphen|html=}}{{efn|The soft hyphen serves as an invisible marker that is used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated [[Line wrap and word wrap|line break]] is preferred should one be needed. This avoids forcing a line break in an inconvenient place,  should the text be reflowed. It becomes visible only if [[Line wrap and word wrap|word wrapping]] occurs at the end of a line.}}
* {{unichar|2010|HYPHEN|html=}}
* {{unichar|2011|NON-BREAKING HYPHEN|html=}}
* {{unichar|2E5D|OBLIQUE HYPHEN}} for medieval texts<ref>{{cite web|title=L2/21-036 Proposal to add the OBLIQUE HYPHEN|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21036-n5152-oblique-hyphen.pdf|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|date=2021-01-12|access-date=2022-09-19}}</ref>

And in non-Latin scripts:<ref name="PropList" />
* {{unichar|058A|ARMENIAN HYPHEN}}
* {{unichar|05BE|HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF}}
* {{unichar|1806|MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT HYPHEN}}
* {{unichar|1B60|BALINESE PAMENENG}} (used only as a line-breaking hyphen)
* {{unichar|2E17|DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN}} (used in ancient Near-Eastern linguistics and in [[blackletter]] typefaces)
* {{unichar|30FB|KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT}} (has the Unicode property of "Hyphen" despite its name)
* {{unichar|FE63|SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS}} (compatibility character for a small hyphen-minus, used in East Asian typography)
* {{unichar|FF0D|FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS}} (compatibility character for a wide hyphen-minus, used in East Asian typography)
* {{unichar|FF65|HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT}} (compatibility character for a wide katakana middle dot, has the Unicode property of "Hyphen" despite its name)

Unicode distinguishes the hyphen from the general [[interpunct]]. The characters below do not have the Unicode property of "Hyphen" despite their names:<ref name="PropList" />
* {{unichar|1400|CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN}}
* {{unichar|2027|HYPHENATION POINT}}
* {{unichar|2043|HYPHEN BULLET|html=}}
* {{unichar|2E1A|HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS}}
* {{unichar|2E40|DOUBLE HYPHEN|nlink=double hyphen}}
* {{unichar|30A0|KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN}}
* {{unichar|10EAD|YEZIDI HYPHENATION MARK|use=script|use2=Yezi}}
* {{unichar|10D6E|GARAY HYPHEN}}

(See [[interpunct]] and [[bullet (typography)]] for more round characters.)