diff --git a/homeassistant/components/myuplink/sensor.py b/homeassistant/components/myuplink/sensor.py
index b9e0ccd2a1e..1e4bfed1a20 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/myuplink/sensor.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/myuplink/sensor.py
@@ -206,10 +206,8 @@ class MyUplinkDevicePointSensor(MyUplinkEntity, SensorEntity):
 
         # Internal properties
         self.point_id = device_point.parameter_id
-        # Remove soft hyphens and replace dash to hard hyphen
-        self._attr_name = device_point.parameter_name.replace("\u002d", "").replace(
-            "-", "\u2011"
-        )
+        # Remove soft hyphens
+        self._attr_name = device_point.parameter_name.replace("\u00ad", "")
 
         if entity_description is not None:
             self.entity_description = entity_description