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    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. Son-in-law is an example of a hyphenated word. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the … See more

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    The word is derived from Ancient Greek ὑφ' ἕν (huph' hén), contracted from ὑπό ἕν (hypó hén), "in one" (literally "under one"). An (ἡ) ὑφέν ((he) hyphén) was an undertie-like ‿ … See more

    The first known documentation of the hyphen is in the grammatical works of Dionysius Thrax. At the time hyphenation was joining two … See more

    The English language does not have definitive hyphenation rules, though various style guides provide detailed usage recommendations and have a significant amount of overlap in what they advise. Hyphens are mostly used to break single words into parts or … See more

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    In the ASCII character encoding, the hyphen (or minus) is character 4510. As Unicode is identical to ASCII (the 1967 version) for all … See more

    Use of hyphens to delineate the parts of a written date (rather than the slashes used conventionally in Anglophone countries) is specified in the See more

    Unicode has multiple hyphen characters:
    • U+002D - HYPHEN-MINUS, a character of multiple uses
    • U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN (­) See more

    Double hyphen
    French orthography § Hyphens
    Hyphen War, dispute over the naming of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 split See more

     
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