EM DASH

Codepoint

U+2014

Literal Character

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Name

EM DASH

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

General Punctuation

Subblock

Dashes

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 80 94

UTF-16 byte encoding

20 14 (big endian)

HTML Entity

—

LaTeX expression

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Perl string literal

\x{2014}

Comments

• may be used in pairs to offset parenthetical text

See Also

U+2E3A: two-em dash
U+30FC: katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark

Wikipedia

Dash (en)
Em dash (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
︱	PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EM DASH	<vertical> EM DASH (U+2014)
﹘	SMALL EM DASH	<small> EM DASH (U+2014)