diff --git a/packages/message-compiler/src/tokenizer.ts b/packages/message-compiler/src/tokenizer.ts
index 6fd233577..594b70519 100644
--- a/packages/message-compiler/src/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/packages/message-compiler/src/tokenizer.ts
@@ -420,6 +420,16 @@ export function createTokenizer(
     return takeChar(scnr, closure)
   }
 
+  // NOTE: It is assumed that this function is used in conjunction with `takeIdentifierChar` for named.
+  // TODO: we need to refactor this function ...
+  function takeNamedIdentifierChar(scnr: Scanner): string | undefined | null {
+    const closure = (ch: string) => {
+      const cc = ch.charCodeAt(0)
+      return cc === 45 // -
+    }
+    return takeChar(scnr, closure)
+  }
+
   function takeDigit(scnr: Scanner): string | undefined | null {
     const closure = (ch: string) => {
       const cc = ch.charCodeAt(0)
@@ -503,7 +513,8 @@ export function createTokenizer(
 
     let ch: string | undefined | null = ''
     let name = ''
-    while ((ch = takeIdentifierChar(scnr))) {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-cond-assign
+    while ((ch = takeIdentifierChar(scnr) || takeNamedIdentifierChar(scnr))) {
       name += ch
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/message-compiler/test/tokenizer/named.test.ts b/packages/message-compiler/test/tokenizer/named.test.ts
index 6bf9f7b57..6dba32a48 100644
--- a/packages/message-compiler/test/tokenizer/named.test.ts
+++ b/packages/message-compiler/test/tokenizer/named.test.ts
@@ -310,6 +310,57 @@ test('new line', () => {
   })
 })
 
+test('include hyphen', () => {
+  const tokenizer = createTokenizer('My Nickname is {nick-name}.')
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.Text,
+    value: 'My Nickname is ',
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 1, offset: 0 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 16, offset: 15 }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.BraceLeft,
+    value: '{',
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 16, offset: 15 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 17, offset: 16 }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.Named,
+    value: 'nick-name',
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 17, offset: 16 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 26, offset: 25 }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.BraceRight,
+    value: '}',
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 26, offset: 25 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 27, offset: 26 }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.Text,
+    value: '.',
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 27, offset: 26 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 28, offset: 27 }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(tokenizer.nextToken()).toEqual({
+    type: TokenTypes.EOF,
+    loc: {
+      start: { line: 1, column: 28, offset: 27 },
+      end: { line: 1, column: 28, offset: 27 }
+    }
+  })
+})
+
 describe('modulo cases', () => {
   test('basic named: hi %{name} !', () => {
     const tokenizer = createTokenizer('hi %{name} !')
diff --git a/packages/vue-i18n-core/test/issues.test.ts b/packages/vue-i18n-core/test/issues.test.ts
index 550e288cb..b9edbf81c 100644
--- a/packages/vue-i18n-core/test/issues.test.ts
+++ b/packages/vue-i18n-core/test/issues.test.ts
@@ -1358,3 +1358,21 @@ test('issue #1738', async () => {
   expect(wrapper.find('#te1')?.textContent).toEqual(`true - expected true`)
   expect(wrapper.find('#te2')?.textContent).toEqual(`true - expected true`)
 })
+
+test('#1796', async () => {
+  const i18n = createI18n({
+    locale: 'en',
+    messages: {
+      en: {
+        hello: 'hello world',
+        'message-with-placeholder-using-hyphens':
+          'My message with {placeholder-hyphens}.'
+      }
+    }
+  })
+  expect(
+    i18n.global.t('message-with-placeholder-using-hyphens', {
+      'placeholder-hyphens': i18n.global.t('hello')
+    })
+  ).toEqual('My message with hello world.')
+})
diff --git a/spec/syntax.ebnf b/spec/syntax.ebnf
index c285f0f39..326aaf635 100644
--- a/spec/syntax.ebnf
+++ b/spec/syntax.ebnf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 (*
- * Inltify message syntax v0.2
+ * Inltify message syntax v0.3
  * (vue-i18n compatible)
  *)
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Message ::= (Text? (Placeholder | Linked)? Text?)+;
 Text ::= TextChar+;
 Placeholder ::= Named | List | StringLiteral;
 Modulo ::= "%";
-Named ::= Modulo? "{" Space? (Identifier) Space? "}";
+Named ::= Modulo? "{" Space? (NamedIdentifier) Space? "}";
 List ::= "{" Space? (NumberLiteral) Space? "}";
 Linked ::= "@" (LinkedModifier)? LinkedDelimiter LinkedRefer;
 LinkedRefer ::= LinkedKey | Placeholder;
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Digits ::= [0-9]+;
 
 (* identifier *)
 Identifier ::= [a-zA-Z_] [a-zA-Z0-9_$]*;
+NamedIdentifier ::= [a-zA-Z_] [a-zA-Z0-9_\-$]*;
 
 (* whitespaces *)
 SpaceInline ::= #x0020; (* "\u0020" *)