soft hyphen

noun

1. 软连字符（仅在字行末尾显示或打印）
   a hyphen put into a document that will be displayed or printed only if it comes at the end of a line

1. For operations such as searching and sorting, the soft hyphen should always be ignored.
   对于像搜索以及排序这样的操作，软连词应该被忽略。
2. If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must not display a hyphen character.
   如果在软连词符位置文本行未折断，用户代理必须不显示连词字符。
3. Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics: If a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line.
   解析软连词符的浏览器必须按照下面的语义进行：如果在软连词符位置文本行是折断的，那么在第一样的结尾必须显示一个连词字符。