hyphen

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Summary

hyphen ranks in the top 0.8% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,070 views/month, #621 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • hyphen's image is recorded as Hyphens.svg[2].
  • hyphen's subclass of is recorded as intra-word punctuation mark[3].
  • hyphen's Commons category is recorded as Hyphens[4].
  • hyphen's said to be the same as is recorded as -[5].
  • hyphen's said to be the same as is recorded as hyphen[6].
  • hyphen's said to be the same as is recorded as hyphen[7].
  • hyphen's Unicode character is recorded as ‐[8].
  • hyphen's Unicode character is recorded as -[9].
  • hyphen's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g59s[10].
  • hyphen's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • hyphen's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/hyphen[12].
  • hyphen's shape is recorded as line segment[13].
  • hyphen's hashtag is recorded as -[14].
  • hyphen's code is recorded as -....-[15].
  • hyphen's Quora topic ID is recorded as Hyphen-2[16].
  • hyphen's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bindestrek[17].
  • hyphen's IBM graphic character global ID is recorded as SP100000[18].
  • hyphen's less than is recorded as dash[19].
  • hyphen's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780569718[20].
  • hyphen's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/6993[21].
  • hyphen's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 06856198-n[22].
  • hyphen's IMDb keyword is recorded as hyphen-in-episode-title[23].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for hyphen include Hyphen War[24], a naming dispute[25], in Czechoslovakia[26].

Why It Matters

hyphen ranks in the top 0.8% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,070 views/month, #621 of 77,819).[1] hyphen has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] hyphen is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for hyphen include Hyphen War[24], a naming dispute[25], in Czechoslovakia[26].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . itu.int. itu.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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