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{{About|the punctuation mark}}
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{{Infobox punctuation mark
|mark=‐|name=Hyphen
|variant1=-|caption1=Hyphen-minus
|variant2=‑|caption2=Non-breaking hyphen
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The '''hyphen''' '''{{char|‐}}''' is a [[punctuation]] mark used to join [[word]]s and to separate [[syllable]]s of a single word. The use of hyphens is called '''hyphenation'''.<ref>{{cite dictionary|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyphen|title=''Hyphen'' Definition|dictionary=[[dictionary.com]]|access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> ''Son-in-law'' is an example of a hyphenated word.
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The hyphen is sometimes confused with [[dash]]es ([[en dash]] {{char|–}}, [[em dash]] {{char|—}} and others), which are wider, or with the [[minus sign]] {{char|−}}, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the [[plus sign]] {{char|+}}.
As an [[Orthography|orthographic]] concept, the hyphen is a single entity. In [[character encoding]] for use with computers, it is represented in [[Unicode]] by any of several [[character (computing)|characters]]. These include the dual-use [[hyphen-minus]], the [[soft hyphen]], the [[#
== Etymology ==
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Some ([[OpenType]]) fonts will change the character at the end of a word. An example is a font that places a [[long s]], 'ſ{{nnbsp}}', everywhere ''except'' at the end of a word,{{Clarify|reason=Everywhere? Throughout each word?|date=August 2023}} where a round s, {{font|'s'|size=110%}}, is used. A soft hyphen can be used to change the previous letter to a round s in the middle of a word. For example, 'prinſeſſen' can be corrected by inserting a soft hyphen between the 'ſ{{nnbsp}}'s: 'prinſeſ-ſen' becomes 'prinſesſen' (which is correct in Norwegian).
In contrast, a hyphen that is always displayed and printed is called a {{Anchor|hard hyphen}}"hard hyphen". This can be a Unicode hyphen, a hyphen-minus, or a nonbreaking hyphen (see [[#
=== Nonbreaking hyphens <span class="anchor" id="non-breaking hyphen"></span> <span class="anchor" id="nonbreaking hyphen"></span> <span class="anchor" id="no-break hyphen"></span>===
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The '''non-breaking hyphen''', '''nonbreaking hyphen''', or '''no-break hyphen''' looks identical to the regular hyphen, but word processors treat it as a letter so that the hyphenated word will not be divided at the hyphen should this fall at what would be the end of a line of text; instead, either the whole hyphenated word will remain in full at the end of the line or it will go in full to the beginning of the next line. The [[nonbreaking space]] exists for similar reasons.
The [[word segmentation]] rules of most text systems consider a hyphen to be a [[word boundary (linguistics)|word boundary]] and a valid point at which to break a line when flowing text. However, this is not always desirable behavior, especially as it could lead to ambiguity (e.g. ''retreat'' and ''re‑treat'' would be indistinguishable with a line break after ''re''), it does not split off an ending as in "''n''
==="Unicode hyphen" <span class="anchor" id="Unicode hyphen"></span> ===
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