This template inserts ​, which is a U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN (­). A soft hyphen is an "optional" hyphen – a point at which a word may be broken at end-of-line, if necessary, in which case the soft hyphen is made visible in the rendered text; otherwise it remains invisible. (The decision about whether to break a given word is made by the browser.)

To show the effect of a soft hyphen, the following “wocka”s have been separated with {{shy}}, like: wocka{{shy}}wocka{{shy}}.

The effect can be seen by zooming your browser:

Pac-Man goes "wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka­wocka."