# U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN

Invisible soft or discretionary hyphen, SHY, marking where a word may break across lines, showing a dash only at a line end.

| | |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00AD |
| Name | SOFT HYPHEN |
| Also known as | SHY, discretionary hyphen |
| Block | [Latin-1 Supplement](https://unicodekit.com/block/latin-1-supplement) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Format (Cf) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `­` `­` |
| CSS | `\AD` |
| JavaScript | `\u00AD` |
| UTF-8 | C2 AD |
| UTF-16 | 00AD |

## Notes

- commonly abbreviated as SHY
- an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location

## Related characters

- ¬ [U+00AC NOT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AC)
- ® [U+00AE REGISTERED SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AE)
- « [U+00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AB)
- ¯ [U+00AF MACRON](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AF)
- ª [U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AA)
- ° [U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B0)
- © [U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A9)
- ± [U+00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B1)
- ¨ [U+00A8 DIAERESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A8)
- ² [U+00B2 SUPERSCRIPT TWO](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B2)
- § [U+00A7 SECTION SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A7)
- ³ [U+00B3 SUPERSCRIPT THREE](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B3)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/00AD · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/00AD