FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS character

FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS
U+FF0D
65293
－
－
Pd (Dash Punctuation)
ES (European Number Separator)
N
0
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS is a dash or hyphen punctuation mark from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS is European Number Separator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like the plus sign and the minus sign. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The European Separator (ES) bidi class is applied to characters like the plus and minus signs (+, -) that are used in conjunction with European numbers. These characters are treated neutrally but are crucial for maintaining the correct representation of arithmetic expressions within bidirectional text.

Dash Punctuation (Pd) refers to characters that serve as dashes in text. Dashes are used to indicate ranges, interruptions, or separations in text. Examples include the hyphen (-), en dash (–), and em dash (—).

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..