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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 [[#Non-breaking hyphens|nonbreaking hyphen]], and an unambiguous form known familiarly as the "Unicode hyphen". The character most often used to represent a hyphen (and the one produced by the key on a keyboard) is called the "hyphen-minus" by Unicode, deriving from the original [[ASCII]] standard, where it was called "hyphen{{nbsp}}(minus)".<ref>{{cite web |title=American National Standard X3.4-1977: American Standard Code for Information Interchange | page=10 (4.2 Graphic characters) |url=https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-1977.pdf |publisher=National
== Etymology ==
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