U+E002D "" Tag Hyphen-Minus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E002D "" Tag Hyphen-Minus is a special tag character designed for use within invisible formatting sequences, specifically as part of the Unicode tag mechanism used in plain text to encode metadata like language tags. It originates from the now-deprecated ISO 2022-based tag system and is not intended for visible display, representing a hyphen-minus symbol only in the context of tagging. While it can appear as a placeholder or invisible markup in some systems, its primary function is to mark the end of a tag sequence, and it should not be confused with the regular hyphen-minus or any standard punctuation used in normal text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E002D |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Hyphen-Minus |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠀭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠀭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x80 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E002D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc2d |