SOFT HYPHEN
- Category
- Cf — Format
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 173
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent SOFT HYPHEN in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 AD | 194 173 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | AD 00 | 173 0 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 00 AD | 0 173 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | AD 00 00 00 | 173 0 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 00 AD | 0 0 0 173 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | AD | 173 | 1 |
| Windows-1252 | AD | 173 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | AD | 173 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | AD | 173 | 1 |
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | not supported | ||
| EUC-JP | not supported | ||
| GBK | not supported | ||
| Big5 | not supported |
Escape Sequences
How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.
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View U+00AD on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- BN — Boundary Neutral