En Dash vs Hyphen
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | – 2013 | ‐ 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | En Dash | Hyphen |
| Category | Dashes & Hyphens | Dashes & Hyphens |
| Block | General Punctuation | General Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation (Pd) | Dash Punctuation (Pd) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2013 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2013 | U+2010 |
| HTML Decimal | – | ‐ |
| HTML Hex | – | ‐ |
| CSS | \2013 | \2010 |
| JavaScript | \u{2013} | \u{2010} |
| Python | \u2013 | \u2010 |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 93 | e2 80 90 |
How to Distinguish
Both En Dash and Hyphen belong to the Dashes & Hyphens category and the General Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.