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• hī′f(ə)n
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• /ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯.fən/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, also: /ˈhʌɪ̯.fən/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈhɑe̯.fən/
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• Scotland: /ˈhʌi̯.fən/
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• Scotland: /ˈhəi̯-/
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• Scotland: /-fʌn/
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• India: /ˈhəj.fen/
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• India: /ˈhɑːj.fen/
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• rhymes with -aɪfən
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AY1 F AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin hyphen, from Ancient Greek ῠ̔φέν (hŭphén, “in one, as a single word”), univerbation of ῠ̔φ’ ἕν (hŭph’ hén, “under one”), from ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҵәаӷәаҷ (acwʼağwačʼ) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Albanian: vizë ndarëse — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Arabic: شَحْطَة (šaḥṭa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Arabic: شَرْطَة (šarṭa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Arabic: شَرْطَة (šarṭa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Armenian: միության գծիկ (miutʻyan gcik) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Armenian: դեֆիս (defis) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Armenian: ենթամնա (entʻamna) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Azerbaijani: defis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Bashkir: һыҙыҡса (hıźıqsa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Belarusian: злучо́к (zlučók) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Belarusian: дэфі́с (defís) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Belarusian: ры́ска (rýska) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Bengali: হাইফেন (haiphen) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Bulgarian: тире́ (tiré) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Bulgarian: дефи́с (defís) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Burmese: တုံး (tum:) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Catalan: guionet — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Chinese Mandarin: 連字號 /连字号 (liánzìhào) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Cornish: nos-junya — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Czech: spojovník — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Danish: bindestreg — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Dutch: afbreekteken — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Dutch: koppelteken — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Dutch: verbindingsstreepje — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Esperanto: streketo — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Estonian: sidekriips — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Faroese: bindistrika — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Finnish: yhdysmerkki — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Finnish: yhdysviiva — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Finnish: väliviiva — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Finnish: tavuviiva — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• French: trait d'union — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• French: tiret — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• French: tiret du 6 — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Georgian: დეფისი (depisi) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• German: Bindestrich — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• German: Divis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Greek: ενωτικό (enotikó) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hebrew: מַקָּף (makáf) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hindi: हैफ़ेन (haifen) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hungarian: kötőjel — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hungarian: diviz — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hungarian: választójel — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Hungarian: elválasztójel — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Icelandic: bandstrik — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Indonesian: tanda hubung — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Interlingua: tracto de union — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Irish: fleiscín — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Italian: trattino — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Japanese: ハイフン (haifun) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Kazakh: дефис (defis) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Kazakh: сызықша (syzyqşa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Khmer: រជ្ជុសញ្ញា (raccusaññaa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Khmer: អនុកលា (ʼaʼnukaʼlaa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Khmer: យតិភង្គ (yĕəʼtephĕəng) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Khmer: ក្បៀសឆ្លងពាក្យ (kbiəh chlɑɑng piək) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Khmer: សហសញ្ញា (saʼhaʼsaññaa) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Korean: 붙임표 (buchimpyo) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Korean: 하이픈 (haipeun) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Kyrgyz: дефис (defis) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Kyrgyz: сызыкча (sızıkca) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Latin: virgula — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Latvian: defise — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Lithuanian: brūkšnys — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Lithuanian: brūkšnelis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Luxembourgish: Bindestréch — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Macedonian: цртичка (crtička) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Malay: sempang — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Māori: tohuhono — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Māori: tohuwehe — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Mongolian: зураас (zuraas) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Norwegian Bokmål: bindestrek — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bindestrek — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Iranian Persian: خَطِّ تیرِه — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Iranian Persian: خَطِّ فاصِلِه (xatt-e fâsele) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Polish: dywiz — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Polish: łącznik — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Polish: kreseczka — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Portuguese: hífen — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Portuguese: traço — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Romanian: cratimă — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Romanian: liniuță de unire — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Russian: дефи́с (defís) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Russian: чёрточка (čórtočka) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìob-cheangail — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Scottish Gaelic: strìoch — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Scottish Gaelic: tàthan — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Serbo-Croatian: спо́јница — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Serbo-Croatian: spójnica — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Slovak: spojovník — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Slovene: vezaj — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Slovene: deljaj — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Spanish: guion — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Swedish: bindestreck — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Swedish: divis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Tagalog: gitling — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Tagalog: giyon — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Tajik: дефис (defis) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Tajik: нимтире (nimtire) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Tatar: сызыкча (sızıqça) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Thai: ยัติภังค์ (yát-dtì-pang) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Turkish: tire — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Turkish: kısa çizgi — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Turkmen: defis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Turkmen: çyzyk — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Turkmen: tirkeş — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Ukrainian: дефі́с (defís) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Ukrainian: ри́ска (rýska) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Urdu: ہائِفِن (hāifin) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Uyghur: سىزىقچە (siziqche) — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Uzbek: defis — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Uzbek: chiziqcha — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Vietnamese: dấu gạch nối — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Vietnamese: dấu nối — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Volapük: yümamalül — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Welsh: cysylltnod — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Welsh: cyplysnod — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split
• Welsh: heiffen — symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split