U+FE63 "﹣" Small Hyphen-Minus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE63 "﹣" Small Hyphen-Minus is a typographic variant of the standard hyphen-minus, designed for use in East Asian text contexts where a smaller, more compact horizontal line is preferred for visual harmony. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, which includes characters unified with those from older character sets, and its appearance is typically shorter and lighter than the regular hyphen-minus. Intended for compatibility with legacy encoding systems, this character serves as a punctuation mark for linking words or numbers, mirroring the function of the standard hyphen while fitting aesthetically with the proportional spacing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE63 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Hyphen-Minus |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Separator |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe63 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Dash | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Other Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | SContinue |