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html-entity

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HTML named character reference ­ maps to U+00AD.

Mapping

Named reference
­
Code point(s)
U+00AD
Decimal
173
Characters
­

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (­) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Unicode

U+00AD

Same character

Other entities

Entities that produce this code point

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02