tavuviiva
Tavuviiva is a Finnish term for the typographic mark used to indicate where a word may be broken at the end of a line. It corresponds to the concept known in English as a soft hyphen and is used to improve text justification by signaling potential breakpoints within long or compound words. The name literally means “syllable dash” in Finnish.
In digital text, the tavuviiva is encoded as the Unicode character U+00AD, the SOFT HYPHEN. The symbol
Usage and guidelines for the tavuviiva vary with typesetting systems and languages. It is particularly relevant
Related concepts include hyphenation, the regular hyphen, and the general practice of line breaking in typography.