The character commonly known as hyphen originated in early typewriters. The character repertoire had to be kept small, so several characters such as hyphen, en dash, em dash, and minus sign were lumped together. In modern character code standards, the character is called "hyphen-minus" to reflect its ambiguity, but it's really more ambiguous than the name suggests. It is best to call it "Ascii hyphen".
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