Hyphen-Minus
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 45 on the numeric keypad to insert hyphen-minus.
- Alt code
- Alt+45
- HTML entity
- -
- Unicode
- U+002D
About this symbol
The hyphen-minus is another typewriter compromise: one key for the hyphen, the minus sign and stand-ins for dashes. Unicode has separate characters for each, the hyphen ‐, the minus sign −, and the en dash and em dash, but this one is what every keyboard types.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HYPHEN-MINUS
- Also called
- Hyphen, dash, Minus sign
- Type
- Dash
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash, all of which have dedicated alternatives
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.