hyphen-minus
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The symbol ', known in Unicode as hyphen-minus', is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called hyphen (minus). The character is referred to as a hyphen, a minus sign, or a dash according to the context where it is being used.
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The symbol ', known in Unicode as hyphen-minus', is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called hyphen (minus). The character is referred to as a hyphen, a minus sign, or a dash according to the context where it is being used.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hyphen-minus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.