# soft hyphen

> soft hyphen (U+00AD): format control character normally invisible, which indicates a break position within a word; if the word break is applied, the character is displayed as a hyphen at end of line before the break

**Wikidata**: [Q257834](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257834)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/soft-hyphen


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Unicode 13.0. 2020](https://www.unicode.org/Public/13.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt)
3. [Source](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html)
4. [Source](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#character-references)
5. [Source](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt)