Hyphen
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hyphen-177-17289761
title:
Hyphen
text:
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes, which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +. As an orthographic concept, the hyphen is a single entity. In character encoding for use with computers, it is represented in Unicode by any of several characters. These inclu
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encyclopedia
description:
Punctuation mark used to join words
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen
date created:
2002-06-24T07:14:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:00:25Z
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