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Noun Concept
Categories: Unicode formatting code points, Whitespace, Control characters, Punctuation, Typography
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soft hyphen  SHY  ­  Breaking hyphen  discretionary hyphen
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In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen or syllable hyphen, abbreviated SHY, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens if they fall on the line end but remain invisible within the line. Wikipedia
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In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen or syllable hyphen, abbreviated SHY, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens if they fall on the line end but remain invisible within the line. Wikipedia
An indication of an optional hyphenation point in a word Wikipedia Disambiguation
A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed. Wiktionary
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Unicode control character
hyphen
UNICODE BLOCK
Latin-1 Supplement
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syllabication
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soft hyphen
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soft hyphen
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soft hyphen
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­, Breaking hyphen, discretionary hyphen, Hyphenation hint, optional hyphen, SHY (character), Soft-hyphen, Soft HYphen, SOFT HYPHEN, Soft Hyphen, soft hyphens, Syllable hyphen, U+00AD, ­
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SOFT HYPHEN, U+00AD, ­

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