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   August 2025
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SOFT HYPHEN character

SOFT HYPHEN specifications

Name:

SOFT HYPHEN

Hex Number:

U+00AD

Decimal Number:

173

HTML Entity (Dec):

HTML Entity (Hex):

Category:

Cf (Format Character)

Bidi Class:

BN (Boundary Neutral)

Mirrored:

Decomposition:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Latin-1 Supplement

Script:

Common

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane)

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

About SOFT HYPHEN

Soft Hyphen (U+00AD) is a Unicode format from the Latin-1 Supplement block. It resides on Plane 0 (BMP, Basic Multilingual Plane), has bidirectional class BN (boundary neutral), is not mirrored, and has combining class 0 (Not Reordered). In HTML it can be written as  or .