Dash - Common Dashes

Common Dashes

There are several forms of dash, of which the most common are:

glyph Unicode codepoint HTML character entity reference HTML/XML numeric character references TeX Alt code (Windows) Mac OS X key combination Compose key vim digraph
figure dash U+2012 none ‒ or ‒ none
en dash U+2013 – – or – -- Alt + 0150 ⌥ Opt+- Compose+-+-+. CTRL+K - N
em dash U+2014 — — or — --- Alt + 0151 ⌥ Opt+⇧ Shift+- Compose+-+-+- CTRL+K - M
horizontal bar U+2015 none ― or ― none CTRL+K - 3
swung dash U+2053 none ⁓ or ⁓ \~{}

Less common are the two-em dash (⸺) and three-em dash (⸻), both added to Unicode with version 6.1 as U+2E3A and U+2E3B. Windows character codes require that Num Lock be on.

En dash
—  ‒ 
Em dash  Figure dash  Horizontal bar
Punctuation
apostrophe ( ’ ' )
brackets (, ( ), { }, ⟨ ⟩ )
colon ( : )
comma (, ، 、 )
dash ( ‒, –, —, ― )
ellipsis ( …, ..., . . . )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
guillemets ( « » )
hyphen ( ‐ )
hyphen-minus ( - )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ”, ' ', " " )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/stroke/solidus ( /, ⁄ )
Word dividers
interpunct ( · )
space ( ) ( ) ( )
General typography
ampersand ( & )
asterisk ( * )
at sign ( @ )
backslash ( \ )
bullet ( • )
caret ( ^ )
dagger ( †, ‡ )
degree ( ° )
ditto mark ( 〃 )
inverted exclamation mark ( ¡ )
inverted question mark ( ¿ )
number sign/pound/hash ( # )
numero sign ( № )
obelus ( ÷ )
ordinal indicator ( º, ª )
percent, per mil ( %, ‰ )
basis point ( ‱ )
pilcrow ( ¶ )
prime ( ′, ″, ‴ )
section sign ( § )
tilde ( ~ )
underscore/understrike ( _ )
vertical bar/broken bar/pipe ( ¦, | )
Intellectual property
copyright symbol ( © )
registered trademark ( ® )
service mark ( ℠ )
sound recording copyright ( ℗ )
trademark ( ™ )
Currency
currency ( ¤ )
currency
( ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛ )
Uncommon typography
asterism ( ⁂ )
index/fist ( ☞ )
interrobang ( ‽ )
irony punctuation ( ؟ )
lozenge ( ◊ )
reference mark ( ※ )
tie ( ⁀ )
Related
diacritical marks
logic symbols
whitespace characters
non-English quotation style ( « », „ ” )
In other scripts
Chinese punctuation
Hebrew punctuation
Japanese punctuation
Korean punctuation
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