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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Usage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Usage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ranges_of_values" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ranges_of_values"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Ranges of values</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ranges_of_values-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relationships_and_connections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relationships_and_connections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>Relationships and connections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationships_and_connections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Attributive_compounds" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Attributive_compounds"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>Attributive compounds</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Attributive_compounds-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Differing_recommendations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Differing_recommendations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.4</span> <span>Differing recommendations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Differing_recommendations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parenthetic_and_other_uses_at_the_sentence_level" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parenthetic_and_other_uses_at_the_sentence_level"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.5</span> <span>Parenthetic and other uses at the sentence level</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parenthetic_and_other_uses_at_the_sentence_level-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Typography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Typography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Typography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Typography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Spacing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spacing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>Spacing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spacing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Encoding_and_substitution" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Encoding_and_substitution"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.2</span> <span>Encoding and substitution</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Encoding_and_substitution-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Itemization_mark" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Itemization_mark"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.3</span> <span>Itemization mark</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Itemization_mark-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Em_dash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Em_dash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Em dash</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Em_dash-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Em dash subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Em_dash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Usage_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Usage_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Usage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Usage_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Colon-like_use" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Colon-like_use"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Colon-like use</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Colon-like_use-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_colon_and_em_dash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_colon_and_em_dash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1.1</span> <span>Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of colon and em dash</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_colon_and_em_dash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Inversion_of_the_function_of_a_colon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Inversion_of_the_function_of_a_colon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1.2</span> <span>Inversion of the function of a colon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Inversion_of_the_function_of_a_colon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parenthesis-like_use" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parenthesis-like_use"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2</span> <span>Parenthesis-like use</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parenthesis-like_use-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_paired_parenthetical_marks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_paired_parenthetical_marks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2.1</span> <span>Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of paired parenthetical marks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_paired_parenthetical_marks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subtle_differences_in_punctuation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subtle_differences_in_punctuation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2.2</span> <span>Subtle differences in punctuation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subtle_differences_in_punctuation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Interruption_of_a_speaker" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interruption_of_a_speaker"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.3</span> <span>Interruption of a speaker</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interruption_of_a_speaker-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Interruption_by_someone_else" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interruption_by_someone_else"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.3.1</span> <span>Interruption by someone else</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interruption_by_someone_else-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Self-interruption" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Self-interruption"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.3.2</span> <span>Self-interruption</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Self-interruption-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quotation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quotation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.4</span> <span>Quotation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quotation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Quotation_mark–like_use" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quotation_mark–like_use"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.4.1</span> <span>Quotation mark–like use</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quotation_mark–like_use-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Attribution_of_quote_source" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Attribution_of_quote_source"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.4.2</span> <span>Attribution of quote source</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Attribution_of_quote_source-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Redaction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Redaction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.5</span> <span>Redaction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Redaction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Itemization_mark_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Itemization_mark_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.6</span> <span>Itemization mark</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Itemization_mark_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Repetition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Repetition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.7</span> <span>Repetition</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Repetition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Typographic_details" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Typographic_details"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Typographic details</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Typographic_details-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Spacing_and_substitution" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spacing_and_substitution"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>Spacing and substitution</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spacing_and_substitution-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.2</span> <span>Approximating the em dash with two or three hyphens</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-En_dash_versus_em_dash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#En_dash_versus_em_dash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>En dash versus em dash</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-En_dash_versus_em_dash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Horizontal_bar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Horizontal_bar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Horizontal bar</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Horizontal_bar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Swung_dash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Swung_dash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Swung dash</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Swung_dash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unicode" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unicode"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Unicode</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unicode-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_other_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_other_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>In other languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_other_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Explanatory_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8F%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA" title="Працяжнік – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Працяжнік" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8F%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA" title="Працяжнік – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Працяжнік" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Тире – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тире" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_etre_div_lizherenn" title="Tired etre div lizherenn – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tired etre div lizherenn" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui%C3%B3_(signe_de_puntuaci%C3%B3)" title="Guió (signe de puntuació) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Guió (signe de puntuació)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5" title="Тире – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Тире" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poml%C4%8Dka" title="Pomlčka – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Pomlčka" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llinell_doriad" title="Llinell doriad – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Llinell doriad" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankestreg" title="Tankestreg – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tankestreg" 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hreflang="el" data-title="Διπλή παύλα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raya_(puntuaci%C3%B3n)" title="Raya (puntuación) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Raya (puntuación)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltostreko" title="Haltostreko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Haltostreko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marra_(ikurra)" title="Marra (ikurra) – Basque" lang="eu" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D2%9B%D1%88%D0%B0" title="Сызықша – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Сызықша" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kistari" title="Kistari – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kistari" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domuz%C4%ABme" title="Domuzīme – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Domuzīme" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a 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For the food delivery service, see <a href="/wiki/DASHED" title="DASHED">DASHED</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Dash_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Dash (disambiguation)">Dash (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="max-width:18em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background:#ebebeb; font-size:750%; line-height:1.2; font-weight:bold; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Liberation Serif', serif, georgia;">—</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-size:125%; background:#ebebeb; font-weight:bold; padding:0.1em; line-height:1.2em;">Dash</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background:#ebebeb;padding:0 0 0.4em;line-height:1.2em;"> <table align="center" style="display:table;padding:0;background:transparent;width:100%"> <tbody><tr style="font-size: 300%; text-align: center; line-height: 0.01; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Liberation Serif', serif, georgia;"> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">– </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em ;min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">— </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">― </th> <th style="padding:0.5em 0.1em; min-width:1.0em; text-align: center;">‒ </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">En dash </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Em dash </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Horizontal bar </th> <th style="padding:0.2em; text-align: center;">Figure dash </th></tr></tbody></table></div></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>dash</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">punctuation</a> mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a> but is longer and sometimes higher from the <a href="/wiki/Baseline_(typography)" title="Baseline (typography)">baseline</a>. The most common versions are the <b>en<span class="nowrap"> </span>dash</b> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">–</span>, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the <a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a>; the <b>em<span class="nowrap"> </span>dash</b> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">—</span>, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the <b>horizontal<span class="nowrap"> </span>bar</b> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">―</span>, whose length varies across <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typefaces</a> but tends to be between those of the <a href="/wiki/En_(typography)" title="En (typography)">en</a> and <a href="/wiki/Em_(typography)" title="Em (typography)">em</a> dashes.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Typical uses of dashes are to mark a break in a sentence, or to set off an explanatory remark (similar to parenthesis), or to show spans of time or ranges of values. </p><p>The em dash is sometimes used as a leading character to identify the source of a quoted text. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg/220px-P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg/330px-P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg/440px-P15878coll17_5783_large.jpg 2x" data-file-width="999" data-file-height="1344" /></a><figcaption>1622 <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Okes" title="Nicholas Okes">Okes</a>-print of <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll17/id/5783">19</a>. Note use of dashes.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early 17th century, in <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Okes" title="Nicholas Okes">Okes</a>-printed <a href="/wiki/Play_(theatre)" title="Play (theatre)">plays</a> of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject.<sup id="cite_ref-mcmillin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcmillin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dashes are variously longer <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⸺</span> (as in <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> reprinted 1619) or composed of hyphens <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">---</span> (as in <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> printed 1622); moreover, the dashes are often, but not always, prefixed by a comma, colon, or semicolon.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcmillin_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcmillin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1733, in <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>'s <i>On Poetry</i>, the terms <i>break</i> and <i>dash</i> are attested for <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⸺</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">—</span> marks:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><div class="poem"> <p>Blot out, correct, insert, refine,<br /> Enlarge, diminish, interline;<br /> Be mindful, when Invention fails;<br /> To scratch your Head, and bite your Nails.<br /> <br /> Your poem finish'd, next your Care<br /> Is needful, to transcribe it fair.<br /> In modern Wit all printed Trash, is<br /> Set off with num'rous <i>Breaks</i>⸺and <i>Dashes</i>— </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_dash">Types of dash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Types of dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Usage varies both within English and within other languages, but the usual conventions for the most common dashes in printed English text are these: </p> <ul><li>An (unspaced) em dash or a <a href="#Typography">spaced en dash</a> can be used to mark a break in a sentence, and a pair can be used to set off a <a href="/wiki/Parenthesis_(rhetoric)" title="Parenthesis (rhetoric)">parenthetical phrase</a>. For example:</li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Glitter, felt, yarn, and buttons—his kitchen looked as if a clown had exploded.<br />A flock of sparrows—some of them juveniles—alighted and sang.</p></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Glitter, felt, yarn, and buttons – his kitchen looked as if a clown had exploded.<br />A flock of sparrows – some of them juveniles – alighted and sang.</p></blockquote> <ul><li>An en dash, but not an em dash, indicates spans or differentiation, where it may replace "and", "to", or "through".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was fought in western Pennsylvania and along the present US–Canada border </p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Edwards, pp. 81–101.</cite></div></blockquote> <ul><li>An em dash or horizontal bar, but not an en dash, is used to set off the source of a direct <a href="/wiki/Quotation" title="Quotation">quotation</a>. For example:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a></cite></div></blockquote> <ul><li>A horizontal bar (also called <i>quotation dash</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the em dash, but not the en dash, introduces quoted text.</li> <li>In informal contexts, a <a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">hyphen-minus</a> (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">-</span>) is often used as a substitute for an en<span class="nowrap"> </span>dash, as is a pair of hyphen-minuses (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">--</span>) for an em<span class="nowrap"> </span>dash, because the hyphen-minus symbol is readily available on most keyboards.<sup id="cite_ref-Bringhurst_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bringhurst-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Autocorrection" title="Autocorrection">autocorrection</a> facility of word-processing software often corrects these to the typographically correct form of dash.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Figure_dash">Figure dash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Figure dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>figure dash</b> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">‒</span> (<span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+2012</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">‒</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FIGURE DASH</span>) has the same width as a numerical digit. (Many <a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">fonts</a> have digits of equal width.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) It is used within numbers such as the phone number 555‒0199, especially in columns so as to maintain alignment. In contrast, the en dash <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">–</span> (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2013</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">–</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">EN DASH</span>) is generally used for a range of values.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">−</span> (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2212</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">−</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MINUS SIGN</span>) <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> is generally set a little higher, so as to be level with the horizontal bar of the <a href="/wiki/Plus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Plus sign">plus sign</a>. In informal usage, the <a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">hyphen-minus</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">-</span> (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+002D</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">-</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HYPHEN-MINUS</span>), provided as standard on most keyboards, is often used instead of the figure dash. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/TeX" title="TeX">TeX</a>, the standard fonts have no figure dash; however, the digits normally all have the same width as the en dash, so an en dash can be a substitution for the figure dash. In <a href="/wiki/XeLaTeX" class="mw-redirect" title="XeLaTeX">XeLaTeX</a>, one can use <code>\char"2012</code>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Linux_Libertine" title="Linux Libertine">Linux Libertine</a> font also has the figure dash glyph. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="En_dash">En dash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: En dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>en dash</b>, <b>en rule</b>, or <b>nut dash</b><sup id="cite_ref-Stewart1919_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stewart1919-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">–</span></b> is traditionally half the width of an <a href="#Em_dash">em dash</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In modern fonts, the length of the en dash is not standardized, and the en dash is often more than half the width of the em dash.<sup id="cite_ref-strizver_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strizver-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The widths of en and em dashes have also been specified as being equal to those of the uppercase letters N and M, respectively,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at other times to the widths of the lower-case letters.<sup id="cite_ref-strizver_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strizver-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Usage">Usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The three main uses of the en dash are: </p> <ol><li>to connect symmetric items, such as the two ends of a range or two competitors or alternatives</li> <li>to contrast values or illustrate a relationship between two things</li> <li>to compound attributes, where one of the connected items is itself a compound</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ranges_of_values">Ranges of values</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ranges of values"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values – a range with clearly defined and finite upper and lower boundaries – roughly signifying what might otherwise be communicated by the word "through" in American English, or "to" in International English.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This may include ranges such as those between dates, times, or numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-barronsgrammar_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-barronsgrammar-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-copyeditguide-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webstersgrammar-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-texttypestyle-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various <a href="/wiki/Style_guide" title="Style guide">style guides</a> restrict this range indication style to only parenthetical or tabular matter, requiring "to" or "through" in running text. Preference for hyphen vs. en dash in ranges varies. For example, the <a href="/wiki/APA_style" title="APA style">APA style</a> (named after the American Psychological Association) uses an en dash in ranges, but the <a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style">AMA style</a> (named after the American Medical Association) uses a hyphen: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>En dash range style (e.g., <a href="/wiki/APA_style" title="APA style">APA</a><sup id="cite_ref-apaAmaStyle_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apaAmaStyle-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">Hyphen</a> range style (e.g., <a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style">AMA</a><sup id="cite_ref-apaAmaStyle_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apaAmaStyle-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</th> <th>Running text spell-out </th></tr> <tr> <td>June–July 1967</td> <td>June-July 1967</td> <td>June and July 1967 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1:15–2:15 p.m.</td> <td>1:15-2:15 <small>PM</small></td> <td>1:15 to 2:15 p.m. </td></tr> <tr> <td>For ages 3–5</td> <td>For ages 3-5</td> <td>For ages 3 through 5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>pp. 38–55</td> <td>pp 38-55</td> <td>pages 38 through 55 </td></tr> <tr> <td>President Jimmy Carter (1977–81)</td> <td>President Jimmy Carter (1977-81)</td> <td>President Jimmy Carter, in office from 1977 to 1981 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Some style guides (including the <i>Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (<a href="/wiki/SI" class="mw-redirect" title="SI">SI</a>)</i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style">AMA Manual of Style</a></i>) recommend that, when a number range might be misconstrued as subtraction, the word "to" should be used instead of an en dash. For example, "a voltage of 50 V to 100 V" is preferable to using "a voltage of 50–100 V". Relatedly, in ranges that include negative numbers, "to" is used to avoid ambiguity or awkwardness (for example, "temperatures ranged from −18<span class="nowrap"> </span>°C to −34<span class="nowrap"> </span>°C"). It is also considered poor style (best avoided) to use the en dash in place of the words "to" or "and" in phrases that follow the forms <i>from X to Y</i> and <i>between X and Y</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-copyeditguide-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webstersgrammar-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Relationships_and_connections">Relationships and connections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Relationships and connections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The en dash is used to contrast values or illustrate a relationship between two things.<sup id="cite_ref-barronsgrammar_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-barronsgrammar-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-texttypestyle-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples of this usage include: </p> <ul><li>Australia beat American Samoa 31–0.</li> <li>Radical–Unionist coalition</li> <li>Boston–Hartford route</li> <li>New York–London flight (however, it may be argued that <i>New York–to-London flight</i> is more appropriate because New York is a single name composed of two valid words; with a single en dash, the phrase is ambiguous and could mean either <i>Flight from New York to London</i> or <i>New flight from York to London</i>; such ambiguity is assuaged when used mid-sentence, though, because of the capital N in "New" indicating it is a special noun). If dash–hyphen use becomes too unwieldy or difficult to understand, the sentence can be rephrased for clarity and readability; for example, "The flight from New York to London was a pleasant experience".<sup id="cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-texttypestyle-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Mother–daughter relationship</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_court" title="Supreme court">Supreme Court</a> voted 5–4 to uphold the decision.</li></ul> <p>A distinction is often made between "simple" attributive compounds (written with a hyphen) and other subtypes (written with an en dash); at least one authority considers name pairs, where the paired elements carry equal weight, as in the <a href="/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act" title="Taft–Hartley Act">Taft–Hartley Act</a> to be "simple",<sup id="cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-copyeditguide-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while others consider an en dash appropriate in instances such as these<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to represent the parallel relationship, as in the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act" title="Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act">McCain–Feingold bill</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statistics" title="Bose–Einstein statistics">Bose–Einstein statistics</a>. When an act of the U.S. Congress is named using the surnames of the senator and representative who sponsored it, the hyphen-minus is used in the <a href="/wiki/Short_title" class="mw-redirect" title="Short title">short title</a>; thus, the short title of <a href="/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act">Public Law 111–203</a> is "The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", with a <a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">hyphen-minus</a> rather than an en dash between "Dodd" and "Frank".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, there is a difference between something named for a parallel/coordinate relationship between two people –  for example, <a href="/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose" title="Satyendra Nath Bose">Satyendra Nath Bose</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> –  and something named for a single person who had a <a href="/wiki/Compound_surname" class="mw-redirect" title="Compound surname">compound surname</a>, which may be written with a hyphen or a space but not an en dash – for example, the <a href="/wiki/Lennard-Jones_potential" title="Lennard-Jones potential">Lennard-Jones potential</a> [hyphen] is named after one person (<a href="/wiki/John_Lennard-Jones" title="John Lennard-Jones">John Lennard-Jones</a>), as are <a href="/wiki/Bence_Jones_protein" title="Bence Jones protein">Bence Jones proteins</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Hughlings_Jackson" title="John Hughlings Jackson">Hughlings Jackson syndrome</a>. Copyeditors use dictionaries (general, medical, biographical, and geographical) to confirm the <a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponymity</a> (and thus the styling) for specific terms, given that no one can know them all offhand. </p><p>Preference for an en dash instead of a hyphen in these coordinate/relationship/connection types of terms is a matter of style, not inherent orthographic "correctness"; both are equally "correct", and each is the preferred style in some style guides. For example, <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Heritage_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language" title="The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language">the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style">AMA Manual of Style</a></i>, and <a href="/wiki/Dorland%27s_medical_reference_works" title="Dorland's medical reference works">Dorland's medical reference works</a> use hyphens, not en dashes, in coordinate terms (such as "<a href="/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier" title="Blood–brain barrier">blood-brain barrier</a>"), in <a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponyms</a> (such as "<a href="/wiki/Cheyne%E2%80%93Stokes_respiration" title="Cheyne–Stokes respiration">Cheyne-Stokes respiration</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator" title="Kaplan–Meier estimator">Kaplan-Meier method</a>"), and so on. In other styles, AP Style or Chicago Style, the en dash is used to describe two closely related entities in a formal manner. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Attributive_compounds">Attributive compounds</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Attributive compounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In English, the en dash is usually used instead of a <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a> in <a href="/wiki/Adjectival_phrase" class="mw-redirect" title="Adjectival phrase">compound (phrasal) attributives</a> in which one or both elements is itself a compound, especially when the compound element is an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/open_compound" class="extiw" title="wikt:open compound">open compound</a>, meaning it is not itself hyphenated. This manner of usage may include such examples as:<sup id="cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-copyeditguide-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-webstersgrammar-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Company2005_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Company2005-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LutzStevenson2005_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LutzStevenson2005-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The hospital–nursing home connection (the connection between the <i>hospital</i> and the <i>nursing home</i>, not a <i>home connection</i> between the <i>hospital</i> and <i>nursing</i>)</li> <li>A nursing home–home care policy (a policy about the <i>nursing home</i> and <i>home care</i>)</li> <li>Pre–Civil War era</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for Fiction">Pulitzer Prize</a>–winning novel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York-style_pizza" class="mw-redirect" title="New York-style pizza">New York–style pizza</a></li> <li>The non–San Francisco part of the world</li> <li>The post–World War II era <ul><li>(Compare <i><a href="/wiki/Post-war" title="Post-war">post-war</a> era</i>, which, if not fully compounded (<i>postwar</i>), takes a hyphen, not an en dash. The difference is that <i>war</i> is not an open compound, whereas <i>World War II</i> is.)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans%E2%80%93New_Guinea_languages" title="Trans–New Guinea languages">Trans–New Guinea languages</a></li> <li>The ex–prime minister</li> <li>a long–focal length camera</li> <li>water ice–based bedrock</li> <li>The pro-conscription–anti-conscription debate</li> <li>Public-school–private-school rivalries</li></ul> <p>The disambiguating value of the en dash in these patterns was illustrated by Strunk and White in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" title="The Elements of Style">The Elements of Style</a></i> with the following example: When <i>Chattanooga News</i> and <i>Chattanooga Free Press</i> merged, the joint company was inaptly named <i><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga_News-Free_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Chattanooga News-Free Press">Chattanooga News-Free Press</a></i> (using a hyphen), which could be interpreted as meaning that their newspapers were news-free.<sup id="cite_ref-Einsohn2000_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Einsohn2000-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An exception to the use of en dashes is usually made when <a href="/wiki/Prefix" title="Prefix">prefixing</a> an already-<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyphenated_compound" class="extiw" title="wikt:hyphenated compound">hyphenated compound</a>; an en dash is generally avoided as a distraction in this case. Examples of this include:<sup id="cite_ref-Einsohn2000_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Einsohn2000-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>non-English-speaking air traffic controllers</li> <li>semi-labor-intensive industries</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European language</a></li> <li>The post-<a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> era</li> <li>non-government-owned corporations</li></ul> <p>An en dash can be retained to avoid ambiguity, but whether any ambiguity is plausible is a judgment call. <a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style">AMA style</a> retains the en dashes in the following examples:<sup id="cite_ref-AMA10_8.3.1_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMA10_8.3.1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>non–self-governing</li> <li>non–English-language journals</li> <li>non–group-specific blood</li> <li>non–Q-wave myocardial infarction</li> <li>non–brain-injured subjects</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Differing_recommendations">Differing recommendations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Differing recommendations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As discussed above, the en dash is sometimes recommended instead of a hyphen in <a href="/wiki/Compound_adjectives" class="mw-redirect" title="Compound adjectives">compound adjectives</a> where neither part of the adjective modifies the other—that is, when each modifies the noun, as in <i><a href="/wiki/Love%E2%80%93hate_relationship" title="Love–hate relationship">love–hate relationship</a></i>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></i> (<i>CMOS</i>), however, limits the use of the en dash to two main purposes: </p> <ul><li>First, use it to indicate ranges of time, money, or other amounts, or in certain other cases where it replaces the word "to".</li> <li>Second, use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>That is, the <i>CMOS</i> favors hyphens in instances where some other guides suggest en dashes, with the 16th edition explaining that "Chicago's sense of the en dash does not extend to <i>between</i>", to rule out its use in "US–Canadian relations".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In these two uses, en dashes normally do not have spaces around them. Some make an exception when they believe avoiding spaces may cause confusion or look odd. For example, compare <span class="nowrap">"12 June – 3 July"</span> with <span class="nowrap">"12 June–3 July"</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-harry_shaw_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harry_shaw-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, other authorities disagree and state there should be no space between an en dash and adjacent text. These authorities would not use a space in, for example, <span class="nowrap">"11:00 a.m.⁠–⁠1:00 p.m."</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <span class="nowrap">"July 9–August 17"</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Parenthetic_and_other_uses_at_the_sentence_level">Parenthetic and other uses at the sentence level</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Parenthetic and other uses at the sentence level"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="#En_dash_versus_em_dash">§ En dash versus em dash</a></div> <p>En dashes can be used instead of pairs of commas that mark off a nested clause or phrase. They can also be used around parenthetical expressions –  such as this one –  rather than the em dashes preferred by some publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-Complete_Typographer_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Complete_Typographer-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bringhurst_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bringhurst-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The en dash can also signify a rhetorical pause. For example, an <a href="/wiki/Opinion_piece" title="Opinion piece">opinion piece</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> is entitled: </p> <blockquote><p>Who is to blame for the sweltering weather? My kids say it's boomers – and me<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In these situations, en dashes must have a single space on each side.<sup id="cite_ref-Bringhurst_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bringhurst-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Typography">Typography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Typography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spacing">Spacing</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Spacing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In most uses of en dashes, such as when used in indicating ranges, they are typeset closed up to the adjacent words or numbers. Examples include "the 1914–18<span class="nowrap"> </span>war" or "the Dover–Calais crossing". It is only when en dashes are used in setting off parenthetical expressions – such as this one – that they take spaces around them.<sup id="cite_ref-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For more on the choice of em versus en in this context, see <a href="#En_dash_versus_em_dash">En dash versus em dash</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Encoding_and_substitution"><span class="anchor" id="Encoding,_substitution,_and_keyboard_shortcuts"></span>Encoding and substitution</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Encoding and substitution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When an en dash is unavailable in a particular <a href="/wiki/Character_encoding" title="Character encoding">character encoding</a> environment—as in the <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> character set—there are some conventional substitutions. Often two consecutive hyphens are the substitute. </p><p>The en dash is encoded in Unicode as U+2013 (decimal 8211) and represented in HTML by the <a href="/wiki/Character_entity" class="mw-redirect" title="Character entity">named character entity</a> <code>&ndash;</code>. </p><p>The en dash is sometimes used as a substitute for the <a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a>, when the minus sign character is not available since the en dash is usually the same width as a plus sign and is often available when the minus sign is not; see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Typing_the_characters">below</a>. For example, the original 8-bit <a href="/wiki/Macintosh_Character_Set" class="mw-redirect" title="Macintosh Character Set">Macintosh Character Set</a> had an en dash, useful for the minus sign, years before Unicode with a dedicated minus sign was available. The hyphen-minus is usually too narrow to make a typographically acceptable minus sign. However, the en dash cannot be used for a minus sign in <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> because the syntax usually requires a hyphen-minus. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Itemization_mark">Itemization mark</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Itemization mark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Either the en dash or the em dash may be used as a <a href="/wiki/Bullet_(typography)" title="Bullet (typography)">bullet</a> at the start of each item in a bulleted list. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Em_dash">Em dash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Em dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>em dash</b>, <b>em rule</b>, or <b>mutton dash</b><sup id="cite_ref-Stewart1919_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stewart1919-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">—</span></b> is longer than an <a href="#En_dash">en dash</a>. The character is called an <i>em dash</i> because it is one <a href="/wiki/Em_(typography)" title="Em (typography)">em</a> wide, a length that varies depending on the font size. One em is the same length as the font's height (which is typically measured in <a href="/wiki/Point_(typography)" title="Point (typography)">points</a>). So in 9-point type, an em dash is nine points wide, while in 24-point type the em dash is 24 points wide. By comparison, the en dash, with its <span class="nowrap">1 <a href="/wiki/En_(typography)" title="En (typography)">en</a></span> width, is in most <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">fonts</a> either a half-em wide<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the width of an upper-case "N".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The em dash is encoded in Unicode as U+2014 (decimal 8212) and represented in HTML by the named character entity <code>&mdash;</code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Usage_2">Usage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The em dash is used in several ways. It is primarily used in places where a set of <a href="/wiki/Bracket#Parentheses" title="Bracket">parentheses</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)" title="Colon (punctuation)">colon</a> might otherwise be used,<sup id="cite_ref-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.2_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.2-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (December 2017)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and it can also show an abrupt change in thought (or an interruption in speech) or be used where a <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">full stop</a> (period) is too strong and a <a href="/wiki/Comma_(punctuation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Comma (punctuation)">comma</a> is too weak (similar to that of a semicolon). Em dashes are also used to set off summaries or definitions.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Common uses and definitions are cited below with examples. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Colon-like_use">Colon-like use</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Colon-like use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_colon_and_em_dash"><span id="Simple_equivalence_.28or_near-equivalence.29_of_colon_and_em_dash"></span>Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of colon and em dash</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of colon and em dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Three alkali metals are the usual substituents: sodium, potassium, and lithium.</i></li> <li><i>Three alkali metals are the usual substituents—sodium, potassium, and lithium.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Inversion_of_the_function_of_a_colon">Inversion of the function of a colon</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Inversion of the function of a colon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>These are the colors of the flag: red, white, and blue.</li> <li>Red, white, and blue—these are the colors of the flag.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Parenthesis-like_use">Parenthesis-like use</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Parenthesis-like use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Simple_equivalence_(or_near-equivalence)_of_paired_parenthetical_marks"><span id="Simple_equivalence_.28or_near-equivalence.29_of_paired_parenthetical_marks"></span>Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of paired parenthetical marks</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Simple equivalence (or near-equivalence) of paired parenthetical marks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Compare parentheses with em dashes: <ul><li><i>Three alkali metals (sodium, potassium, and lithium) are the usual substituents.</i></li> <li><i>Three alkali metals—sodium, potassium, and lithium—are the usual substituents.</i></li></ul></li> <li>Compare commas, em dashes and parentheses (respectively) when no internal commas intervene: <ul><li><i>The food, which was delicious, reminded me of home.</i></li> <li><i>The food—which was delicious—reminded me of home.</i></li> <li><i>The food (which was delicious) reminded me of home.</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Subtle_differences_in_punctuation">Subtle differences in punctuation</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Subtle differences in punctuation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It may indicate an interpolation stronger than that demarcated by parentheses, as in the following from <a href="/wiki/Nicholson_Baker" title="Nicholson Baker">Nicholson Baker</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mezzanine" title="The Mezzanine">The Mezzanine</a></i> (the degree of difference is subjective). </p> <ul><li>"At that age I once stabbed my best friend, Fred, with a pair of pinking shears in the base of the neck, enraged because he had been given the comprehensive sixty-four-crayon Crayola box—including the gold and silver crayons—and would not let me look closely at the box to see how Crayola had stabilized the built-in crayon sharpener under the tiers of crayons."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interruption_of_a_speaker">Interruption of a speaker</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Interruption of a speaker"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Interruption_by_someone_else">Interruption by someone else</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Interruption by someone else"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"But I'm trying to explain that I—" <br />"I'm aware of your mitigating circumstances, but your negative attitude was excessive."</li></ul> <p>In a related use, it may visually indicate the shift between speakers when they overlap in speech. For example, the em dash is used this way in <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Heller" title="Joseph Heller">Joseph Heller</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Catch-22" title="Catch-22">Catch-22</a></i>: </p> <ul><li>He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was the miracle ingredient Z-147. He was— <br />"Crazy!" Clevinger interrupted, shrieking. "That's what you are! Crazy!"<br />"—immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Self-interruption">Self-interruption</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Self-interruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Simple revision of a statement as one's thoughts evolve on the fly: <ul><li>"I believe I shall—<i>no</i>, I'm going to do it."</li></ul></li> <li>Contemplative or emotional trailing off (usually in <a href="/wiki/Dialogue" title="Dialogue">dialogue</a> or in <a href="/wiki/First_person_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="First person narrative">first person narrative</a>): <ul><li>"I sense something; a presence I've not felt since—" in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope">Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Get out or else—"</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd>Either an <a href="/wiki/Ellipsis" title="Ellipsis">ellipsis</a> or an em dash can indicate <a href="/wiki/Aposiopesis" title="Aposiopesis">aposiopesis</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Rhetorical_device" title="Rhetorical device">rhetorical device</a> by which a sentence is stopped short not because of interruption, but because the speaker is too emotional or pensive to continue. Because the ellipsis is the more common choice, an em dash for this purpose may be ambiguous in expository text, as many readers would assume interruption, although it may be used to indicate great emotion in dramatic <a href="/wiki/Monologue" title="Monologue">monologue</a>.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Long pause: <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_English" title="Early Modern English">Early Modern English</a> texts and afterward, em dashes have been used to add long pauses (as noted in Joseph Robertson's 1785 <i>An Essay on Punctuation</i>):</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Lord Cardinal! if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, <br />Hold up thy hand, make signal of that hope.— <br />He dies, and makes no sign!</i></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" title="Henry VI, Part 2">Henry VI, Part 2</a></i></cite></div></blockquote></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quotation">Quotation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Quotation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Quotation_mark–like_use"><span id="Quotation_mark.E2.80.93like_use"></span>Quotation mark–like use</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Quotation mark–like use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This is a <a href="/wiki/Quotation_dash" class="mw-redirect" title="Quotation dash">quotation dash</a>. It may be distinct from an em dash in its coding (see <a href="#Horizontal_bar">horizontal bar</a>). It may be used to indicate turns in a dialogue, in which case each dash starts a paragraph.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It replaces other quotation marks and was preferred by authors such as <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>―O saints above! miss Douce said, sighed above her jumping rose. I wished I hadn't laughed so much. I feel all wet.</dd> <dd>―O, miss Douce! miss Kennedy protested. You horrid thing!</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Attribution_of_quote_source">Attribution of quote source</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Attribution of quote source"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Inline quotes: <ul><li><i>A penny saved is a penny earned.</i> —<a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a></li></ul></li> <li>Block quotes:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><i><div class="poem"> <p><a href="/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter" title="The Walrus and the Carpenter">The Walrus and the Carpenter</a><br /> Were walking close at hand;<br /> They wept like anything to see<br /> Such quantities of sand:<br /> "If this were only cleared away,"<br /> They said, "it would be grand!" </p> </div></i><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Redaction">Redaction</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Redaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Fillet_(redaction)" title="Fillet (redaction)">Fillet (redaction)</a></div> <p>An em dash may be used to indicate omitted letters in a word redacted to an initial or single letter or to <a href="/wiki/Fillet_(redaction)" title="Fillet (redaction)">fillet</a> a word, by leaving the start and end letters whilst replacing the middle letters with a dash or dashes (for <a href="/wiki/Sanitization_(classified_information)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanitization (classified information)">censorship</a> or simply <a href="/wiki/Data_anonymization" title="Data anonymization">data anonymization</a>). It may also censor the end letter. In this use, it is sometimes doubled. </p> <ul><li><i>It was alleged that D⸺ had been threatened with blackmail.</i></li></ul> <p>Three em dashes might be used to indicate a completely missing word.<sup id="cite_ref-trouble_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trouble-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Itemization_mark_2">Itemization mark</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Itemization mark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Either the en dash or the em dash may be used as a <a href="/wiki/Bullet_(typography)" title="Bullet (typography)">bullet</a> at the start of each item in a bulleted list, but a plain hyphen is more commonly used. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Repetition">Repetition</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Repetition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Three em dashes one after another can be used in a footnote, endnote, or another form of bibliographic entry to indicate repetition of the same author's name as that of the previous work,<sup id="cite_ref-trouble_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trouble-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is similar to the use of <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Idem" title="Idem">id.</a></i></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Typographic_details">Typographic details</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Typographic details"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spacing_and_substitution">Spacing and substitution</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Spacing and substitution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to most American sources (such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></i>) and some British sources (such as <i><a href="/wiki/Hart%27s_Rules" title="Hart's Rules">The Oxford Guide to Style</a></i>), an em dash should always be set closed, meaning it should not be surrounded by spaces. But the practice in some parts of the English-speaking world, including the style recommended by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manual_of_Style_and_Usage" title="The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage">The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage</a></i> for printed newspapers and the <i><a href="/wiki/AP_Stylebook" title="AP Stylebook">AP Stylebook</a></i>, sets it open, separating it from its surrounding words by using spaces or <a href="/wiki/Hair_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Hair space">hair spaces</a> (U+200A) when it is being used parenthetically.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>AP Stylebook</i> rejects the use of the open em dash to set off introductory items in lists. However, the "space, en dash, space" sequence is the predominant style in German and French <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>. (See <a href="#En_dash_versus_em_dash">En dash versus em dash</a> below.) </p><p>In Canada, <i>The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing</i>, <i>The Oxford Canadian A to Z of Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation: Guide to Canadian English Usage</i> (2nd ed.), <i>Editing Canadian English</i>, and the <i>Canadian Oxford Dictionary</i> all specify that an em dash should be set closed when used between words, a word and numeral, or two numerals. </p><p>The Australian government's <i>Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers</i> (6th ed.), also specifies that em dashes inserted between words, a word and numeral, or two numerals, should be set closed. A section on the 2-em rule (⸺) also explains that the 2-em can be used to mark an abrupt break in direct or reported speech, but a space is used before the 2-em if a complete word is missing, while no space is used if part of a word exists before the sudden break. Two examples of this are as follows: </p> <ul><li>I distinctly heard him say, "Go away or I'll ⸺".</li> <li>It was alleged that D⸺ had been threatened with blackmail.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens">Approximating the em dash with two or three hyphens</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Approximating the em dash with two or three hyphens"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When an em dash is unavailable in a particular <a href="/wiki/Character_encoding" title="Character encoding">character encoding</a> environment—as in the <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> character set—it has usually been <a href="/wiki/Typographic_approximation" title="Typographic approximation">approximated</a> as consecutive double (--) or triple (---) hyphen-minuses. The two-hyphen em dash proxy is perhaps more common, being a widespread convention in the <a href="/wiki/Typewriter" title="Typewriter">typewriting</a> era. (It is still described for hard copy manuscript preparation in the <i>Chicago Manual of Style</i> as of the 16th edition, although the manual conveys that typewritten manuscript and copyediting on paper are now dated practices.) The three-hyphen em dash proxy was popular with various publishers because the sequence of one, two, or three hyphens could then correspond to the hyphen, en dash, and em dash, respectively. </p><p>Because early comic book <a href="/wiki/Letterer" title="Letterer">letterers</a> were not aware of the typographic convention of replacing a typewritten double hyphen with an em dash, the double hyphen became traditional in American comics. This practice has continued despite the development of computer lettering.<sup id="cite_ref-NatePiekos2012_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NatePiekos2012-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ToddKlein2008_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ToddKlein2008-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="En_dash_versus_em_dash">En dash versus em dash <span class="anchor" id="En_dash_versus_em_dash"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: En dash versus em dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dash_font_comparison.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Dash_font_comparison.png/220px-Dash_font_comparison.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="322" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Dash_font_comparison.png/330px-Dash_font_comparison.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Dash_font_comparison.png/440px-Dash_font_comparison.png 2x" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="692" /></a><figcaption>These comparisons of the <span class="nowrap">hyphen (-)</span>, n, <span class="nowrap">en dash (–)</span>, m, and <span class="nowrap">em dash (—)</span>, in various 12-point fonts, illustrate the typical relationship between lengths ("- n – m —"). In some fonts, the en dash is not much longer than the hyphen, and in <a href="/wiki/Lucida_Grande" title="Lucida Grande">Lucida Grande</a>, the en dash is actually shorter than the hyphen.</figcaption></figure> <p>The en dash is wider than the <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a> but not as wide as the em dash. An <a href="/wiki/Em_(typography)#Incorrect_and_alternate_definitions" title="Em (typography)">em width</a> is defined as the point size of the currently used font, since the M character is not always the width of the point size.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In running text, various dash conventions are employed: an em dash—like so—or a spaced em dash — like so — or a spaced en dash – like so – can be seen in contemporary publications. </p><p>Various style guides and national varieties of languages prescribe different guidance on dashes. Dashes have been cited as being treated differently in the US and the UK, with the former preferring the use of an em dash with no additional spacing and the latter preferring a spaced en dash.<sup id="cite_ref-Complete_Typographer_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Complete_Typographer-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As examples of the US style, <i>The Chicago Manual of Style</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/APA_style" title="APA style">The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association</a></i> recommend unspaced em dashes. Style guides outside the US are more variable. For example, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style" title="The Elements of Typographic Style">The Elements of Typographic Style</a></i> by Canadian typographer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bringhurst" title="Robert Bringhurst">Robert Bringhurst</a> recommends the spaced en dash – like so – and argues that the length and visual magnitude of an em dash "belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography".<sup id="cite_ref-Bringhurst_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bringhurst-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the United Kingdom, the spaced en dash is the house style for certain major publishers, including the <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Group" title="Penguin Group">Penguin Group</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. However, this convention is not universal. The <i>Oxford Guide to Style</i> (2002, section 5.10.10) acknowledges that the spaced en dash is used by "other British publishers" but states that the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, like "most US publishers", uses the unspaced em dash. <a href="/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_English_Usage" title="A Dictionary of Modern English Usage">Fowler's Modern English Usage</a>, saying that it is summarising the <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules">New Hart's Rules</a>, describes the principal uses of the em dash as "a single dash used to introduce an explanation or expansion" and "a pair of dashes used to indicate asides and parentheses", without stipulating whether it should be spaced but giving only unspaced examples.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The en dash – always with spaces in running text when, as discussed in this section, indicating a parenthesis or pause – and the spaced em dash both have a certain technical advantage over the unspaced em dash. Most typesetting and word processing expects word spacing to vary to support <a href="/wiki/Justification_(typesetting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Justification (typesetting)">full justification</a>. Alone among punctuation that marks pauses or logical relations in text, the unspaced em dash disables this for the words it falls between. This can cause uneven spacing in the text, but can be mitigated by the use of <a href="/wiki/Thin_space" title="Thin space">thin spaces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hair_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Hair space">hair spaces</a>, or even <a href="/wiki/Zero-width_space" title="Zero-width space">zero-width spaces</a> on the sides of the em dash. This provides the appearance of an unspaced em dash, but allows the words and dashes to break between lines. The spaced em dash risks introducing excessive separation of words. In full justification, the adjacent spaces may be stretched, and the separation of words further exaggerated. En dashes may also be preferred to em dashes when text is set in narrow columns, such as in newspapers and similar publications, since the en dash is smaller. In such cases, its use is based purely on space considerations and is not necessarily related to other typographical concerns. </p><p>On the other hand, a spaced en dash may be ambiguous when it is also used for ranges, for example, in dates or between geographical locations with internal spaces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Horizontal_bar">Horizontal bar</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Horizontal bar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_dash" title="Quotation mark">Quotation mark § Quotation dash</a></div> <p>The <b>horizontal bar</b> (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced"><a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">U+</a>2015</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">―</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HORIZONTAL BAR</span>), also known as a <b>quotation dash</b>, is used to introduce quoted text. This is the standard method of printing <a href="/wiki/Dialogue" title="Dialogue">dialogue</a> in some languages. The em dash is equally suitable if the quotation dash is unavailable or is contrary to the house style being used. </p><p>There is no support in the standard TeX fonts, but one can use <code>\hbox{---}\kern-.5em---</code> or an em dash. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Swung_dash">Swung dash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Swung dash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tilde#Punctuation" title="Tilde">Tilde § Punctuation</a></div> <p>The <b>swung dash</b> (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced"><a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">U+</a>2053</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⁓</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SWUNG DASH</span>) resembles a lengthened <a href="/wiki/Tilde" title="Tilde">tilde</a> and is used to separate alternatives or approximates. In <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionaries</a>, it is frequently used to stand in for the term being defined. A dictionary entry providing an example for the term <i>henceforth</i> might employ the swung dash as follows: </p> <dl><dd><i>henceforth</i> (adv.) from this time forth; from now on; "<big><big>⁓</big></big> she will be known as Mrs. Wales"</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode">Unicode</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Unicode_input" title="Unicode input">Unicode input</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Unicode characters with property <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">Dash=yes</span><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Code</a></th> <th></th> <th>M and 5×</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Remark </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+002D</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">-</span> </td> <td>M----- </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">hyphen-minus</a></span> </td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> hyphen. Sometimes this is used in groups to indicate different types of dash. In <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> it is used as the <a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+058A</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">֊</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian hyphen</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+05BE</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">־</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_punctuation#Hyphen_and_maqaf" title="Hebrew punctuation">Hebrew punctuation maqaf</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1400</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">᐀</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Canadian_syllabics" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian syllabics">Canadian syllabics hyphen</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1806</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">᠆</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Clear_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Clear script">MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT HYPHEN</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2010</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">‐</span> </td> <td>M‐‐‐‐‐ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a></span> </td> <td>The character that can be used to unambiguously represent a hyphen. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2011</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">‑</span> </td> <td>M‑‑‑‑‑ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Hyphen#Non-breaking_hyphens" title="Hyphen">non-breaking hyphen</a></span> </td> <td>Also called "hard hyphen",<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="Consistency with "Hyphen" article that also flags the claim with "citation needed" (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> denotes a hyphen after which no <a href="/wiki/Word_wrap" class="mw-redirect" title="Word wrap">word wrapping</a> may apply. This is the case where the hyphen is part of a <a href="/wiki/Trigraph_(orthography)" title="Trigraph (orthography)">trigraph</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tetragraph" title="Tetragraph">tetragraph</a> denoting a specific sound (like in the Swiss placename <span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/S-chanf" title="S-chanf">S-chanf</a>"</span>), or where specific orthographic rules prevent a line break (like in German <a href="/wiki/Compound_noun" class="mw-redirect" title="Compound noun">compounds</a> of single-letter abbreviations and full nouns, as "E-Mail"). </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2012</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">‒</span> </td> <td>M‒‒‒‒‒ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="#Figure_dash">figure dash</a></span> </td> <td>Similar to an en dash, but with exactly the width of a digit in the chosen typeface. The vertical position may also be centered on the zero digit, and thus higher than the en dash and em dash, which are appropriate for use with lowercase text in a vertical position similar to the hyphen. The figure dash may therefore be preferred to the en dash for indicating a closed range of values.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2013</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">–</span> </td> <td>M––––– </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="#En_dash">en dash</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2014</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">—</span> </td> <td>M————— </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="#Em_dash">em dash</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2015</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">―</span> </td> <td>M――――― </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="#Horizontal_bar">horizontal bar</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2053</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">⁓</span> </td> <td>M⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="#Swung_dash">swung dash</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+207B</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">⁻</span> </td> <td>M⁻⁻⁻⁻⁻ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">superscript minus</span> </td> <td>Usually is used together with <a href="/wiki/Subscript_and_superscript" title="Subscript and superscript">superscripted</a> numbers. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+208B</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">₋</span> </td> <td>M₋₋₋₋₋ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">subscript minus</span> </td> <td>Usually is used together with <a href="/wiki/Subscript_and_superscript" title="Subscript and superscript">subscripted</a> numbers. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2212</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">−</span> </td> <td>M−−−−− </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a></span> </td> <td>An <a href="/wiki/Arithmetic" title="Arithmetic">arithmetic</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_(mathematics)" title="Operation (mathematics)">operation</a> used in <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> to represent <a href="/wiki/Subtraction" title="Subtraction">subtraction</a> or <a href="/wiki/Negative_number" title="Negative number">negative numbers</a>. Its glyph is consistent with the glyph of the plus sign, and it is centred on the zero digit, unlike the ASCII hyphen-minus and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2010</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">‐</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HYPHEN</span>, that (especially the latter) are designed to match lowercase letters and are inconsistent with arithmetic operators. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E17</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⸗</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Double_hyphen" title="Double hyphen">DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN</a></span></td> <td>Used in ancient Near-Eastern linguistics. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E1A</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⸚</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS</span></td> <td>Used mostly in German dictionaries and indicates <a href="/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)" title="Diaeresis (diacritic)">umlaut</a> of the stem vowel of a plural form. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E3A</span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⸺</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">two-em dash</span> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Supplemental_Punctuation" title="Supplemental Punctuation">Supplemental Punctuation</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E3B</span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⸻</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">three-em dash</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E40</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⹀</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Double_hyphen" title="Double hyphen">DOUBLE HYPHEN</a></span></td> <td>Used in the transcription of old German manuscripts. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E5D</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⹝</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">OBLIQUE HYPHEN</span></td> <td>Used in medieval European manuscripts.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+301C</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">〜</span> </td> <td>M〜〜〜〜〜 </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">WAVE DASH</span></td> <td rowspan="2">Wavy lines found in some East Asian <a href="/wiki/Character_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Character set">character sets</a>. Typographically, they have the width of one <a href="/wiki/CJK_characters" title="CJK characters">CJK</a> character cell (<a href="/wiki/Fullwidth_form" class="mw-redirect" title="Fullwidth form">fullwidth form</a>), and follow the direction of the text, being horizontal for horizontal text, and vertical for columnar. They are used as dashes, and occasionally as emphatic variants of the <a href="/wiki/Katakana" title="Katakana">katakana</a> vowel extender mark. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3030</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">〰</span> </td> <td>M〰〰〰〰〰 </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">wavy dash</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+30A0</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">゠</span></td> <td><span class="nowrap"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE31</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">︱</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EM DASH</span></td> <td rowspan="5">Compatibility characters used in <a href="/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts" title="List of CJK fonts">East Asian typography</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE32</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">︲</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EN DASH</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE58</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">﹘</span> </td> <td>M﹘﹘﹘﹘﹘ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL EM DASH</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FE63</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">﹣</span> </td> <td>M﹣﹣﹣﹣﹣ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF0D</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">－</span> </td> <td>M－－－－－ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+10D6E</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𐵮</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Garay_alphabet" title="Garay alphabet">GARAY HYPHEN</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+10EAD</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𐺭</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_alphabets#Yezidi" title="Kurdish alphabets">YEZIDI HYPHENATION MARK</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Related Unicode characters with property <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">Dash=no</span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Code</a></th> <th></th> <th>M and 5×</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Remark </th></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+005F</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">_</span> </td> <td>M_____ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Underscore" title="Underscore">low line</a></span> </td> <td>ASCII underscore, usually a horizontal line below the <a href="/wiki/Baseline_(typography)" title="Baseline (typography)">baseline</a> (i.e. a spacing underscore). It is commonly used within <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URLs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Identifier_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Identifier (computer science)">identifiers</a> in programming languages, where a space-like separation between parts is desired but a real space is not appropriate. As usual for ASCII characters, this character shows a considerable range of <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyphic variation</a>; therefore, whether sequences of this character connect depends on the <a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">font</a> used. See also <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF3F</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">＿</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FULLWIDTH LOW LINE</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+007E</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">~</span> </td> <td>M~~~~~ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Tilde" title="Tilde">tilde</a></span> </td> <td>Used in programming languages (e.g. for the <a href="/wiki/Bitwise_operation" title="Bitwise operation">bitwise NOT</a> operator in <a href="/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B" title="Operators in C and C++">C and C++</a>). Its <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyphic representation</a> varies, therefore for punctuation in running text the use of more specific characters is preferred, see <a href="#Swung_dash">above</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00AD</span> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Soft_hyphen" title="Soft hyphen">soft hyphen</a></span> </td> <td>Used to indicate where a line <i>may</i> break, as in a <a href="/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)" title="Compound (linguistics)">compound word</a> or between syllables. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00AF</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">¯</span> </td> <td>M¯¯¯¯¯ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">macron</span> </td> <td>A horizontal line positioned at <a href="/wiki/Cap_height" title="Cap height">cap height</a> usually having the same length as <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+005F</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">_</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LOW LINE</span>. It is a spacing character, related to the diacritic mark "<a href="/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)" title="Macron (diacritic)">macron</a>". A sequence of such characters is not expected to connect, unlike <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+203E</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">‾</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">OVERLINE</span>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+02C9</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">ˉ</span> </td> <td>Mˉˉˉˉˉ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)" title="Macron (diacritic)">modifier letter macron</a></span> </td> <td>A <a href="/wiki/Phonetic_symbols_in_Unicode" title="Phonetic symbols in Unicode">phonetic symbol</a> (a line applied above the base letter). </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+02CD</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">ˍ</span> </td> <td>Mˍˍˍˍˍ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">modifier letter low macron</span> </td> <td>A phonetic symbol (a line applied below the base letter). </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+02D7</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">˗</span> </td> <td>M˗˗˗˗˗ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">modifier letter minus sign</span> </td> <td>A variant of the <a href="/wiki/Minus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus sign">minus sign</a> used in phonetics to mark a <a href="/wiki/Retracted_(phonetics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Retracted (phonetics)">retracted</a> or backed articulation. It may show small end-<a href="/wiki/Serif" title="Serif">serifs</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+02DC</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">˜</span> </td> <td>M˜˜˜˜˜ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">small tilde</span> </td> <td>A spacing clone of <a href="/wiki/Tilde#Diacritical_use" title="Tilde">tilde diacritic mark</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+06D4</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">۔</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Arabic full stop</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1428</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">ᐨ</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">Canadian syllabics final short horizontal stroke</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1B78</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">᭸</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Balinese_script" title="Balinese script">Balinese musical symbol left-hand open pang</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+203E</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">‾</span> </td> <td>M‾‾‾‾‾ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Overline" title="Overline">overline</a></span> </td> <td>A character similar to <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00AF</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">¯</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">MACRON</span>, but a sequence of such characters usually connects. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2043</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">⁃</span> </td> <td>M⁃⁃⁃⁃⁃ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">hyphen bullet</span> </td> <td>A short horizontal line used as a list <a href="/wiki/Bullet_(typography)" title="Bullet (typography)">bullet</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+223C</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">∼</span> </td> <td>M∼∼∼∼∼ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">tilde operator</span> </td> <td>Used in mathematics. Ends not curved as much regular tilde. In <a href="/wiki/TeX" title="TeX">TeX</a> and <a href="/wiki/LaTeX" title="LaTeX">LaTeX</a>, this character can be expressed using the math mode command <code>$\sim$</code>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23AF</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">⎯</span> </td> <td>M⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">horizontal line extension</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicode_block)" class="mw-redirect" title="Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode block)">Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode block)</a>. "Used for extension of arrows".<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Can be used in sequences to generate long connected horizontal lines. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+23E4</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">⏤</span> </td> <td>M⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">straightness</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicode_block)" class="mw-redirect" title="Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode block)">Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode block)</a>. Represents line <a href="/wiki/Straightness" class="mw-redirect" title="Straightness">straightness</a> in technical context. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2500</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">─</span> </td> <td>M───── </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">box drawings light horizontal</span> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Box-drawing_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Box-drawing character">Box-drawing characters</a>. Several similar characters from one Unicode block used to draw horizontal lines. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2501</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">━</span> </td> <td>M━━━━━ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">box drawings heavy horizontal</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2796</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">➖</span> </td> <td>M➖➖➖➖➖ </td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">heavy minus sign</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unicode_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode symbols">Unicode symbols</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2E0F</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">⸏</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Paragraphos" title="Paragraphos">paragraphos</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> textual symbol, usually displayed by a long low line. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+3161</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">ㅡ</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HANGUL LETTER EU</span></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a> letters used in <a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> to denote the sound <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɯ]</span>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1173</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">ᅳ</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HANGUL JUNGSEONG EU</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+30FC</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">ー</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Donpu" title="Chōonpu">KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK</a></span></td> <td>Japanese <a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Donpu" title="Chōonpu">chōonpu</a>, used in Japanese to indicate a long vowel. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+4E00</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">一</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80" class="extiw" title="wikt:一">CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E00</a></span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese character">Chinese character</a> for "<a href="/wiki/One" class="mw-redirect" title="One">one</a>", used in various <a href="/wiki/East_Asian_languages" title="East Asian languages">East Asian languages</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+A4FE</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">꓾</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Fraser_Alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraser Alphabet">Lisu punctuation comma</a></span></td> <td>Looks like a sequence of a hyphen and a <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">full stop</a> (period). </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FF5E</span> </td> <td><span style="font-size:120%">～</span> </td> <td>M～～～～～</td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">Fullwidth tilde</a></span> </td> <td>Compatibility character used in <a href="/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts" title="List of CJK fonts">East Asian typography</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+10110</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𐄐</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Aegean_numerals" title="Aegean numerals">Aegean number ten</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+10191</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𐆑</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Uncia_(unit)" title="Uncia (unit)">roman uncia sign</a></span></td> <td>A symbol for an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">ancient Roman</a> unit of length. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1104B</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𑁋</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Brahmi" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmi">Brahmi punctuation line</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+11052</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𑁒</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Brahmi_numerals" title="Brahmi numerals">Brahmi number one</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+110BE</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𑂾</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Kaithi" title="Kaithi">Kaithi section mark</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+1D360</span></td> <td colspan="2"><span style="font-size:120%">𝍠</span></td> <td><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Counting_rod" class="mw-redirect" title="Counting rod">Counting rod unit digit one</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_languages">In other languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: In other languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In many languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, the em dash is used as an opening <a href="/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_dash" title="Quotation mark">quotation mark</a>. There is no matching closing quotation mark; typically a new paragraph will be started, introduced by a dash, for each turn in the dialogue.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Corpus_linguistics" title="Corpus linguistics">Corpus</a> studies indicate that em dashes are more commonly used in Russian than in English.<sup id="cite_ref-AngelelliJacobson2009_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AngelelliJacobson2009-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Russian, the em dash is used for the present <a href="/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)" title="Copula (linguistics)">copula</a> (meaning 'am/is/are'), which is unpronounced in spoken Russian. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, em or en dashes can be used as <a href="/wiki/Parentheses" class="mw-redirect" title="Parentheses">parentheses</a> (brackets), but the use of a second dash as a closing parenthesis is optional. When a closing dash is not used, the sentence is ended with a period (full-stop) as usual. Dashes are, however, much less common than parentheses.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, em dashes can be used to mark off parenthetical phrases. Unlike in English, the em dashes are spaced like brackets, i.e., there is a space between main sentence and dash, but not between parenthetical phrase and dash.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example: "<span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Llevaba la fidelidad a su maestro <span class="nowrap">—un</span> buen <span class="nowrap">profesor—</span> hasta extremos insospechados.</i></span>" (In English: 'He took his loyalty to his teacher <span class="nowrap">—a</span> good <span class="nowrap">teacher—</span> to unsuspected extremes.')<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Compound_point" title="Compound point">Compound point</a> – dashes preceded by colons, semicolons, commas or full stops</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leiden_Conventions" title="Leiden Conventions">Leiden Conventions</a> – rules to indicate conditions in texts (usage of "[— — —]")</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signature_dashes" class="mw-redirect" title="Signature dashes">Signature dashes</a> – signature delimiter in emails (usage of "-- " in a single line)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitespace_characters" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitespace characters">Whitespace characters</a> – spaces of equivalent sizes to dashes</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Johnson (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n0IJ8GcdJ6IC&pg=PA335"><i>The handbook of good English</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>. p. 335. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-671-70797-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-671-70797-2"><bdi>978-0-671-70797-2</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200731145421/https://books.google.com/books?id=n0IJ8GcdJ6IC&pg=PA335">Archived</a> from the original on 31 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+handbook+of+good+English&rft.pages=335&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=978-0-671-70797-2&rft.au=Edward+D.+Johnson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dn0IJ8GcdJ6IC%26pg%3DPA335&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lamb, David. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131103150905/http://www.academicwritingtutor.com/hyphens-en-dashes-and-em-dashes-correct-usage/">Hyphens, En Dashes, and Em Dashes: Correct Usage</a>". Academic Writing Tutor. Retrieved 2 September 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-barronsgrammar-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-barronsgrammar_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-barronsgrammar_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGriffith2004" class="citation book cs1">Griffith, Benjamin W; et al. (2004). <i>Pocket Guide to Correct Grammar</i>. Barron's Pocket Guides. Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7641-2690-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7641-2690-3"><bdi>0-7641-2690-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pocket+Guide+to+Correct+Grammar&rft.place=Woodbury%2C+NY&rft.series=Barron%27s+Pocket+Guides&rft.pub=Barron%27s+Educational+Series&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-7641-2690-3&rft.aulast=Griffith&rft.aufirst=Benjamin+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-copyeditguide-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-copyeditguide_22-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJudd2001" class="citation book cs1">Judd, Karen (2001). <i>Copyediting: A Practical Guide</i>. Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56052-608-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-56052-608-4"><bdi>1-56052-608-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Copyediting%3A+A+Practical+Guide&rft.place=Menlo+Park%2C+CA&rft.pub=Crisp+Publications&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=1-56052-608-4&rft.aulast=Judd&rft.aufirst=Karen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-webstersgrammar-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-webstersgrammar_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLobergerWelsh2001" class="citation book cs1">Loberger, Gordon; Welsh, Kate Shoup (2001). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/webstersnewworld00lobe"><i>Webster's new world English grammar handbook</i></a></span>. New York, NY: Hungry Minds. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7645-6488-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7645-6488-9"><bdi>0-7645-6488-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Webster%27s+new+world+English+grammar+handbook&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pub=Hungry+Minds&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-7645-6488-9&rft.aulast=Loberger&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rft.au=Welsh%2C+Kate+Shoup&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwebstersnewworld00lobe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-texttypestyle-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-texttypestyle_24-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIves1921" class="citation book cs1">Ives, George Burnham (1921). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/texttypeandstyl00bostgoog"><i>Text, type and style: A compendium of Atlantic usage</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic Monthly Press">Atlantic Monthly Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/texttypeandstyl00bostgoog/page/n136">125</a>. <q>The en-dash ... may stand for the word "and" or "to" in such phrases as "the Radical–Unionist Coalition", "the Boston–Hartford Air Line"; "the period of Republican supremacy, 1860–84"; "pp. 224–30".</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Text%2C+type+and+style%3A+A+compendium+of+Atlantic+usage&rft.pages=125&rft.pub=Atlantic+Monthly+Press&rft.date=1921&rft.aulast=Ives&rft.aufirst=George+Burnham&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftexttypeandstyl00bostgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarner2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Bryan_A._Garner" title="Bryan A. Garner">Garner, Bryan A.</a> (2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/garnersmodername00garn"><i>Garner's Modern American Usage</i></a></span> (2nd ed.). <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/garnersmodername00garn/page/657">657</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-516191-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-516191-5"><bdi>978-0-19-516191-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Garner%27s+Modern+American+Usage&rft.pages=657&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-19-516191-5&rft.aulast=Garner&rft.aufirst=Bryan+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgarnersmodername00garn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarner2001" class="citation book cs1">Garner, Bryan A. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 July</span> 2020</span> – via Google Books. <q>Use an en-dash as an equivalent of <i>to</i> (as when showing a span of pages), to express tension or difference, or to denote a pairing in which the elements carry equal weight.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Legal+Writing+in+Plain+English%3A+A+Text+with+Exercises&rft.series=Chicago+Guides+to+Writing%2C+Editing%2C+and+Publishing&rft.pages=155&rft.edition=illustrated%2C+reprinted&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-226-28418-7&rft.aulast=Garner&rft.aufirst=Bryan+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DreZf9nzoiSQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDupré1998" class="citation book cs1">Dupré, Lynn (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=X-J4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22equal-weighted+pair%22+%22love-hate+relationship%22"><i>Bugs in Writing</i></a> (Revised ed.). Addison Wesley Longman. p. 221. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-201-37921-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-201-37921-1"><bdi>978-0-201-37921-1</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210324070732/https://books.google.com/books?id=X-J4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22equal-weighted+pair%22+%22love-hate+relationship%22">Archived</a> from the original on 24 March 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 July</span> 2020</span> – via Google Books. <q>use en dashes when you have an equal-weighted pair serving as an adjective, such as love–hate relationship.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bugs+in+Writing&rft.pages=221&rft.edition=Revised&rft.pub=Addison+Wesley+Longman&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-201-37921-1&rft.aulast=Dupr%C3%A9&rft.aufirst=Lynn&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DX-J4AAAAIAAJ%26q%3D%2522equal-weighted%2Bpair%2522%2B%2522love-hate%2Brelationship%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/pdf/PLAW-111publ203.pdf">"Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. U.S. Government Publishing Office. 21 July 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210324070731/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/pdf/PLAW-111publ203.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 24 March 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 August</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dodd-Frank+Wall+Street+Reform+and+Consumer+Protection+Act&rft.pub=U.S.+Government+Publishing+Office&rft.date=2010-07-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.govinfo.gov%2Fcontent%2Fpkg%2FPLAW-111publ203%2Fpdf%2FPLAW-111publ203.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Company2005-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Company2005_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanheritage0000unse_e4c4"><i>The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style</i></a></span>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2005. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americanheritage0000unse_e4c4/page/129">129</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-618-60499-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-618-60499-9"><bdi>978-0-618-60499-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+American+Heritage+Guide+to+Contemporary+Usage+and+Style&rft.pages=129&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-618-60499-9&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Famericanheritage0000unse_e4c4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LutzStevenson2005-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LutzStevenson2005_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLutzStevenson2005" class="citation book cs1">Lutz, Gary; Stevenson, Diane (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SsQ9ugnMcpUC&pg=PA296"><i>The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference</i></a>. Writer's Digest Books. p. 296. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58297-335-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58297-335-7"><bdi>978-1-58297-335-7</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170116235437/https://books.google.com/books?id=SsQ9ugnMcpUC&pg=PA296">Archived</a> from the original on 16 January 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 July</span> 2020</span> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Writer%27s+Digest+Grammar+Desk+Reference&rft.pages=296&rft.pub=Writer%27s+Digest+Books&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-1-58297-335-7&rft.aulast=Lutz&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft.au=Stevenson%2C+Diane&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSsQ9ugnMcpUC%26pg%3DPA296&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Einsohn2000-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Einsohn2000_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Einsohn2000_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEinsohn2000" class="citation book cs1">Einsohn, Amy (2000). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/copyeditorshandb00eins"><i>The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys</i></a></span>. University of California Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/copyeditorshandb00eins/page/108">108</a>–109. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-21834-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-21834-5"><bdi>978-0-520-21834-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Copyeditor%27s+Handbook%3A+A+Guide+for+Book+Publishing+and+Corporate+Communications%2C+with+Exercises+and+Answer+Keys&rft.pages=108-109&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-520-21834-5&rft.aulast=Einsohn&rft.aufirst=Amy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcopyeditorshandb00eins&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AMA10_8.3.1-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-AMA10_8.3.1_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIverson2007" class="citation cs2">Iverson, Cheryl; et al., eds. (2007), "8.3.1 Hyphen", <a href="/wiki/AMA_Manual_of_Style" title="AMA Manual of Style"><i>AMA Manual of Style</i></a> (10th ed.), <a href="/wiki/American_Medical_Association" title="American Medical Association">American Medical Association</a> / Oxford University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-517633-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-517633-9"><bdi>978-0-19-517633-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=8.3.1+Hyphen&rft.btitle=AMA+Manual+of+Style&rft.edition=10th&rft.pub=American+Medical+Association+%2F+Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-19-517633-9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style"><i>The Chicago Manual of Style</i></a> (15th ed.). University of Chicago Press. 2003. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chicagomanualofs00univ_0/page/261">261–265</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-10403-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-10403-6"><bdi>0-226-10403-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Chicago+Manual+of+Style&rft.pages=261-265&rft.edition=15th&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-226-10403-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Chicago Manual of Style</i> (16th [online] ed.). University of Chicago Press. 2010. §6.80.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Chicago+Manual+of+Style&rft.pages=%C2%A76.80&rft.edition=16th+%5Bonline%5D&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=2010&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-harry_shaw-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-harry_shaw_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShaw1986" class="citation book cs1">Shaw, Harry (1986). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/errorsinenglishw00shaw_0/page/185"><i>Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them</i></a>. New York: Harper & Row. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/errorsinenglishw00shaw_0/page/185">185</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-097047-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-097047-2"><bdi>0-06-097047-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Errors+in+English+and+Ways+to+Correct+Them&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=185&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Row&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=0-06-097047-2&rft.aulast=Shaw&rft.aufirst=Harry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ferrorsinenglishw00shaw_0%2Fpage%2F185&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Punctuation Guide, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/en-dash.html">"En dash"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190721003359/https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/en-dash.html">Archived</a> 21 July 2019 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nancy Tuten, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/en-dashes-em-dashes">"Hyphens, En Dashes, and Em Dashes: When to Use Them and How to Type Them"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190730181955/https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/en-dashes-em-dashes">Archived</a> 30 July 2019 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Get It Write, 26 June 2019.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMignon_Fogarty2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Mignon_Fogarty" title="Mignon Fogarty">Mignon Fogarty</a> (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CK5dkloDceIC&pg=PA97"><i>Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Holt_and_Company" title="Henry Holt and Company">Holt Paperbacks</a>. p. 97. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781429977494" title="Special:BookSources/9781429977494"><bdi>9781429977494</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191221164118/https://books.google.com/books?id=CK5dkloDceIC&pg=PA97">Archived</a> from the original on 21 December 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Grammar+Girl%27s+Quick+and+Dirty+Tips+for+Better+Writing&rft.pages=97&rft.pub=Holt+Paperbacks&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=9781429977494&rft.au=Mignon+Fogarty&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCK5dkloDceIC%26pg%3DPA97&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Complete_Typographer-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Complete_Typographer_40-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Complete_Typographer_40-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWill2010" class="citation book cs1">Will, Hill (2010). <i>The Complete Typographer: A Foundation Course for Graphic Designers Working With Type</i> (3rd ed.). Thames and Hudson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-500-28894-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-500-28894-8"><bdi>978-0-500-28894-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Typographer%3A+A+Foundation+Course+for+Graphic+Designers+Working+With+Type&rft.edition=3rd&rft.pub=Thames+and+Hudson&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-500-28894-8&rft.aulast=Will&rft.aufirst=Hill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZoe_Williams2021" class="citation news cs1">Zoe Williams (20 July 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/20/who-is-to-blame-for-the-sweltering-weather-my-kids-say-its-boomers-and-me">"Who is to blame for the sweltering weather? My kids say it's boomers – and me"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210722065353/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/20/who-is-to-blame-for-the-sweltering-weather-my-kids-say-its-boomers-and-me">Archived</a> from the original on 22 July 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 July</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Who+is+to+blame+for+the+sweltering+weather%3F+My+kids+say+it%27s+boomers+%26ndash%3B%26%2332%3Band+me&rft.date=2021-07-20&rft.au=Zoe+Williams&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2021%2Fjul%2F20%2Fwho-is-to-blame-for-the-sweltering-weather-my-kids-say-its-boomers-and-me&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.1-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OUP_New_Hart_4.11.1_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/secondary/harts_rules/4-11-dashes?q=en+dash#en_dash">"4.11.1 En rule"</a></span>, <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules:_The_Oxford_Style_Guide" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide"><i>The Oxford Style Guide: New Hart's Rules</i></a> (Second ed.), Oxford University Press, 2016, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newoxfordstylema0000unse_k5i2/page/86/mode/1up">86</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-876725-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-876725-1"><bdi>978-0-19-876725-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=4.11.1+En+rule&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Style+Guide%3A+New+Hart%27s+Rules&rft.pages=86&rft.edition=Second&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0-19-876725-1&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddictionaries.com%2Fsecondary%2Fharts_rules%2F4-11-dashes%3Fq%3Den%2Bdash%23en_dash&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRitter2002" class="citation book cs1">Ritter, Robert M. (2002). <a href="/wiki/The_Oxford_Guide_to_Style" class="mw-redirect" title="The Oxford Guide to Style"><i>The Oxford Guide to Style</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetosty00ritt/page/n155">140</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-869175-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-869175-0"><bdi>0-19-869175-0</bdi></a>. <q>The en rule is, as its name indicates, an en in length, which makes it longer than a hyphen and half the length of an em rule.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Guide+to+Style&rft.pages=140&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-19-869175-0&rft.aulast=Ritter&rft.aufirst=Robert+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGomez-PalacioVit2009" class="citation book cs1">Gomez-Palacio, Bryony; Vit, Armin (2009). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/graphicdesignref0000gome"><i>Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design</i></a></span>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 June</span> 2018</span>. <q>Three adjacent em dashes (a 3-em dash) are used to substitute for the author's name when a repeated series of works are presented in a bibliography, as well as to indicate an entire missing word in the text.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=A+List+Apart&rft.atitle=The+Trouble+With+EM+%27n+EN+%28and+Other+Shady+Characters%29&rft.date=2001-10-19&rft.aulast=Sheerin&rft.aufirst=Peter+K&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Falistapart.com%2Farticle%2Femen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADash" class="Z3988"></span> His <i>Pete's Guide</i> website has an updated version: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://petesguide.com/perspective/001-emanden/">Version 2.0—May 27, 2002</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180819121639/http://petesguide.com/perspective/001-emanden/">Archived</a> 19 August 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYin2016" class="citation web cs1">Yin, Karen (31 May 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apvschicago.com/2011/05/em-dashes-and-ellipses-closed-or-spaced.html">"Em Dashes and Ellipses: Closed or Spaced Out?"</a>. <i>AP vs. Chicago</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140707100204/http://www.apvschicago.com/2011/05/em-dashes-and-ellipses-closed-or-spaced.html">Archived</a> from the original on 7 July 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Capitalization" title="Capitalization">Capitalization</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_caps" title="All caps">All caps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camel_case" title="Camel case">Camel case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Initial" title="Initial">Initial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter_case" title="Letter case">Letter case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_caps" title="Small caps">Small caps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snake_case" title="Snake case">Snake case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Title_case" title="Title case">Title case</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Emphasis_(typography)" title="Emphasis (typography)">Visual distinction</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blackboard_bold" title="Blackboard bold">Blackboard bold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emphasis_(typography)" title="Emphasis (typography)">Bold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Color_printing" title="Color printing">Color printing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italic_type" title="Italic type">Italics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oblique_type" title="Oblique type">Oblique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underscore" title="Underscore">Underline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitespace_character" title="Whitespace character">Whitespace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Horizontal aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Figure_space" title="Figure space">Figure space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerning" title="Kerning">Kerning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter-spacing" class="mw-redirect" title="Letter-spacing">Letter-spacing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitch_(typewriter)" title="Pitch (typewriter)">Pitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentence_spacing" title="Sentence spacing">Sentence spacing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thin_space" title="Thin space">Thin space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Word_spacing" title="Word spacing">Word spacing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Vertical aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascender_(typography)" title="Ascender (typography)">Ascender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baseline_(typography)" title="Baseline (typography)">Baseline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Body_height_(typography)" title="Body height (typography)">Body height</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap_height" title="Cap height">Cap height</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Descender" title="Descender">Descender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mean_line" title="Mean line">Mean line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overshoot_(typography)" title="Overshoot (typography)">Overshoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-height" title="X-height">x-height</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">Typeface<br /> classifications</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Roman_type" title="Roman type">Roman type</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serif" title="Serif">Serif</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antiqua_(typeface_class)" title="Antiqua (typeface class)">Antiqua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didone_(typography)" title="Didone (typography)">Didone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slab_serif" title="Slab serif">slab serif</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sans-serif" title="Sans-serif">Sans-serif</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">Blackletter type</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotunda_(script)" title="Rotunda (script)">Rotunda</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Schwabacher" title="Schwabacher">Schwabacher</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_type" title="Gaelic type">Gaelic type</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Insular_script" title="Insular script">Insular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncial_script" title="Uncial script">Uncial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Specialist</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Record_type" title="Record type">Record type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Display_typeface" title="Display typeface">Display typeface</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Script_typeface" title="Script typeface">script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fat_face" title="Fat face">fat face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reverse-contrast_typefaces" title="Reverse-contrast typefaces">reverse-contrast</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">Punctuation</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_typographical_symbols_and_punctuation_marks" title="List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks">List</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bullet_(typography)" title="Bullet (typography)">Bullet</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanging_punctuation" title="Hanging punctuation">Hanging punctuation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">Hyphen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">minus sign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpunct" title="Interpunct">Interpunct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_(punctuation)" title="Space (punctuation)">Space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vertical_bar" title="Vertical bar">Vertical bar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Typesetting" title="Typesetting">Typesetting</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu" title="Etaoin shrdlu">Etaoin shrdlu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">Font</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monospaced_font" title="Monospaced font">monospaced</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Font_catalog" title="Font catalog">Font catalog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_position_only" title="For position only">For position only</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letterpress_printing" title="Letterpress printing">Letterpress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorem_ipsum" title="Lorem ipsum">Lorem ipsum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microprinting" title="Microprinting">Microprinting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microtypography" title="Microtypography">Microtypography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movable_type" title="Movable type">Movable type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pangram" title="Pangram">Pangram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phototypesetting" title="Phototypesetting">Phototypesetting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punchcutting" title="Punchcutting">Punchcutting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reversing_type" title="Reversing type">Reversing type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sort_(typesetting)" title="Sort (typesetting)">Sort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type_color" title="Type color">Type color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type_design" title="Type design">Type design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">Typeface</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_typefaces" title="List of typefaces">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Typographic_unit" title="Typographic unit">Typographic units</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agate_(typography)" title="Agate (typography)">Agate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero_(typography)" title="Cicero (typography)">Cicero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Em_(typography)" title="Em (typography)">Em</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/En_(typography)" title="En (typography)">En</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metric_typographic_units" title="Metric typographic units">Metric units</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pica_(typography)" title="Pica (typography)">Pica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_(typography)" title="Point (typography)">Point</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_point-size_names" title="Traditional point-size names">traditional point-size names</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twip" title="Twip">Twip</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Digital typography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Character_encoding" title="Character encoding">Character encoding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Font_hinting" title="Font hinting">Hinting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Font_rasterization" title="Font rasterization">Rasterization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_typographic_features" title="List of typographic features">Typographic features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_typography" title="Web typography">Web typography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Fonts" title="Bézier curve">Bézier curves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desktop_publishing" title="Desktop publishing">Desktop publishing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Typography in other<br />writing systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_typography" title="Arabic typography">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_typography" 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color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ¡ </span> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ¿ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Inverted_question_and_exclamation_marks" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverted question and exclamation marks">inverted ! and ?</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ⸮ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Irony_punctuation" title="Irony punctuation">irony punctuation</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> # </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">number sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> № </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Numero_sign" title="Numero sign">numero sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> º </span> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ª </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Ordinal_indicator" title="Ordinal indicator">ordinal indicator</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> % </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Percent_sign" title="Percent sign">percent sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ‰ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Per_mille" title="Per mille">per mille</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ‱ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Basis_point" title="Basis point">basis point</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ° </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Degree_symbol" title="Degree symbol">degree symbol</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ⌀ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Diameter#Symbol" title="Diameter">diameter sign</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> + </span> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> − </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs" title="Plus and minus signs">plus and minus signs</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> × </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Multiplication_sign" title="Multiplication sign">multiplication sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ÷ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Division_sign" title="Division sign">division sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ~ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Tilde" title="Tilde">tilde</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ± </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Plus%E2%80%93minus_sign" title="Plus–minus sign">plus–minus sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> ∓ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Minus-plus_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Minus-plus sign">minus-plus sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> √ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Radical_symbol" title="Radical symbol">radical symbol</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> _ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Underscore" title="Underscore">underscore</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> <span style="position: relative; top: 0.25em;">⁀</span> </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Tie_(typography)" title="Tie (typography)">tie</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> | </span> <span style="background: var( 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