"The hyphen (\u2010) is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes (\u2012, \u2013, \u2014, \u2015), which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign (\u2212), which is also longer.As an orthographic concept, the hyphen is a single entity."@en .