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A hyphen is a small punctuation mark that connects words together or breaks up the syllables within a single word. It matters because it helps clarify meaning in writing—for example, distinguishing between different phrases or making compound words easier to read.
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Vinony's link graph records 639 inbound references to 하이픈, and connects out to dash, plus and minus signs and word.
It sits within the topics Punctuation and Punctuation of English.
Vinony links it to 68 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Punctuation mark.mark
- ‐
- Punctuation mark.name
- Hyphen
- Punctuation mark.variant1
- -
- Punctuation mark.caption1
- Hyphen-minus
- Punctuation mark.variant2
- ‑
- Punctuation mark.caption2
- Non-breaking hyphen
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- intra-word punctuation mark
- Image
- Hyphens.svg
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- Unicode character
- -
- Commons category
- Hyphens
- less than
- dash
- hashtag
- -
- code
- -....-
- shape
- line segment
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