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  2. Dash - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia uses four: the hyphen (sometimes called the hyphen-minus), the minus sign, the en dash, and the em dash. Hyphen (- or -, MOS:HYPHEN; known as the hyphen-minus in ASCII and Unicode) are used in many ways on Wikipedia. They are the only short, horizontal dash-like character available as a separate key on most keyboards. They are used:

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols ...

  5. Hyphen-minus - Wikipedia

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    On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. [1] The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, [2] where it was called hyphen (minus). [3] The character is referred to as a hyphen, a minus sign, or a dash according to the context where it is being used.

  6. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Symbol Name Symbol(s) Meaning Example of Use Dele: Delete: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ Begin new paragraph: Pilcrow (Unicode U+00B6) ¶ no: Remove paragraph break: Caret [a] (Unicode U+2038, 2041, 2380) ‸ or ⁁ or ⎀ Insert # Insert space: Close up (Unicode U+2050) ⁐ Tie words together, eliminating a space: I was reading the news⁐paper ...

  7. List of symbols - Wikipedia

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    Many (but not all) graphemes that are part of a writing system that encodes a full spoken language are included in the Unicode standard, which also includes graphical symbols. See: Language code; List of Unicode characters; List of writing systems; Punctuation; List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

  8. Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/5 - Wikipedia

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    A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with   before, and a space after – or use an em dash (—) without spaces (see Wikipedia:How to make dashes). Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash, and avoid using a hyphen as a minus sign.

  9. Template:Punctuation marks in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Pd, dash Common ‒ FIGURE DASH U+2012: Pd, dash Common – EN DASH U+2013: Pd, dash Common — EM DASH U+2014: Pd, dash Common ― HORIZONTAL BAR U+2015: Pd, dash Common ⸗ DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN U+2E17: Pd, dash Common ⸚ HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS U+2E1A: Pd, dash Common ⸺ TWO-EM DASH U+2E3A: Pd, dash Common ⸻ THREE-EM DASH U+2E3B: Pd, dash ...