Non-Breaking Hyphen Symbol ‑

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Non-Breaking Hyphen Symbol Information

Symbol Name Non-Breaking Hyphen
Unicode Version 1.1 (June 1993)
Unicode U+2011
CSS Code \2011
Hex Code ‑
HTML Code ‑

Non-Breaking Hyphen Symbol Encoding

UTF-8 0xE2 0x80 0x91
UTF-16 0x2011
UTF-32 0x00002011


Non-Breaking Hyphen symbol's PNG and SVG files


How to add non-breaking hyphen symbol via keyboard on different Operating systems

You can type the non-breaking hyphen on most modern devices with the help of following methods:

How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Microsoft Word

You can type the non-breaking hyphen on microsoft Microsoft Word using steps mentioned below:

  • Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol and type 2 0 1 1
  • Without moving the cursor press keys Alt + x together
  • The original 2 0 1 1 is now transformed into ‑

How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Microsoft Windows

You can type the non-breaking hyphen on Microsoft windows using following steps:

  • Hold Alt and press to type non-breaking hyphen on your windows machine.

How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Mac OS

You can type the non-breaking hyphen on Mac OS using following steps:

  • Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol
  • Press Ctrl + ⌘ Command + ⎵ Space to bring up the Character Viewer. Alternatively, choose Edit ⇒ Emoji & Symbols
  • Type “Non-Breaking Hyphen” in the search field at the top and press Enter
  • The symbol should appear. Click on it to insert it into your text
  • How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Mac OS
    How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Mac OS

How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on Linux

You can type the non-breaking hyphen on Linux using following steps:

  • Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol
  • Hold ⇧ Shift + Ctrl and press the letter + U
  • Press keys 2 0 1 1 consecutively
  • And then press ↵ Enter , the desired symbol will be added to your document

How to type non-breaking hyphen symbol on IOS and Android

The easiest way to type the non-breaking hyphen on ios and android is to copy and paste it wherever you need it.


How to use non-breaking hyphen in CSS

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span {
content: "\2011";
}

How to type non-breaking hyphen in HTML

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<span>&#8209;</span>

Non-Breaking Hyphen symbol representation in programming languages

non-breaking hyphen's representation in different programming languages can be found in table below:

Language Representation
Rust \u{2011}
Ruby \u{2011}
Python \u2011
PHP \u{2011}
Perl "\x{2011}"
Java \u2011
Modern JavaScript - Since ES6 \u{2011}
JavaScript \u2011
Go \u2011
C# \u2011
C and C++ \u2011
Bash and Zsh - inside echo -e \u2011
RFC 5137 \u'2011'
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