# - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS

Keyboard hyphen or minus key, a short dash used for hyphenated words, subtraction, negative numbers and command line options.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `-` |
| Codepoint | U+002D |
| Name | HYPHEN-MINUS |
| Also known as | dash, hyphen, minus sign |
| Block | [Basic Latin](https://unicodekit.com/block/basic-latin) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Dash Punctuation (Pd) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `-` `-` |
| CSS | `\2D` |
| JavaScript | `\u002D` |
| UTF-8 | 2D |
| UTF-16 | 002D |

## Notes

- used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash, all of which have dedicated alternatives

## Related characters

- , [U+002C COMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/002C)
- . [U+002E FULL STOP](https://unicodekit.com/char/002E)
- + [U+002B PLUS SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/002B)
- / [U+002F SOLIDUS](https://unicodekit.com/char/002F)
- * [U+002A ASTERISK](https://unicodekit.com/char/002A)
- 0 [U+0030 DIGIT ZERO](https://unicodekit.com/char/0030)
- ) [U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/0029)
- 1 [U+0031 DIGIT ONE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0031)
- ( [U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/0028)
- 2 [U+0032 DIGIT TWO](https://unicodekit.com/char/0032)
- ' [U+0027 APOSTROPHE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0027)
- 3 [U+0033 DIGIT THREE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0033)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/002D · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/002D