This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block which goes from 0x80 to 0xFF.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: ­
It is sometimes abbreviated as SHY.
You can use the u+00AD copy pc button below.
Easy u+00AD copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+00AD name is soft hyphen emoji.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint (hex) | 00AD, u00AD |
| Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
| Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | - |
| Official name (Unicode 15.0) | SOFT HYPHEN |
| resolved name | soft hyphen |
| block | Latin-1 Supplement (Latin_1_Sup) |
| common typos | u+00AD, u+A00D |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 00AD like u 00AD, (u+00AD) or u +00AD. You can also find u-00AD, u*00AD, un+00AD, u00AD, u=00AD or c+00AD. You can also spell it with u 00AD unicode, u plus 00AD, uncode 00AD or unicode + 00AD.
Its bidirectional class is "BN":Boundary Neutral (Default ignorables, non-characters, and control characters, other than those explicitly given other types.)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+00AD that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode Latin-1 Supplement keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u00AD allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
| encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 AD | 49837 | 11000010 10101101 |
| UCS2 | AD 00 | 44288 | 10101101 00000000 |
| UTF-16LE | AD 00 | 44288 | 10101101 00000000 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 AD | 173 | 10101101 |
| UTF7 | 2B 41 4B 30 2D | 185779040301 | 00101011 01000001 01001011 00110000 00101101 |
| UTF7-IMAP | 26 41 4B 30 2D | 164304203821 | 00100110 01000001 01001011 00110000 00101101 |