dash

Punctuation mark

EntityQ187819

Also known as – · — · ― · ‒ · horizontal bar

Subclass of: punctuation mark

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The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontal bar ―, whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes.

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23 statements · 22% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Unicode character: – statement is subject of: –
— statement is subject of: —
Greater than: hyphen criterion used: length · has characteristic: ceteris paribus
Derivative work: Morse dash
Different from: ꟷ
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16 identifiers linking dash across the web's reference databases

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