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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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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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- 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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