Non-Breaking Hyphen
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Non-Breaking Hyphen has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ‑
- Unicode
- U+2011
About this symbol
The non-breaking hyphen keeps a hyphenated word or number on one line, so a phone number such as 555‑0123 is never split at the end of a line. Microsoft Word types it with Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
- Type
- Dash
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Dashes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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