U+FE63 "﹣" Small Hyphen-Minus Unicode Character

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.