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soft hyphen

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Also known as ­, SHY, discretionary hyphen

soft hyphen (U+00AD): format control character normally invisible, which indicates a break position within a word; if the word break is applied, the character is displayed as a hyphen at end of line before the break

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HTML entity
­
Unicode character
­
Unicode code point
00AD
Unicode character name
SOFT HYPHEN
Commons category
Soft hyphen
short name
SHY
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