U+2014 Em Dash
U+2014 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Dash Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2014 behaves as Break Opportunity Before and After regarding line breaks. It has type Sentence Continue for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “em dash” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dash, em.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
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.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8212 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 94 |
| UTF-16 | 20 14 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 14 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%94 |
| HTML hex reference | — |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | — |
| HTML named entity | — |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | D1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | D1 |
| LATEX | \textemdash |
| AGL: Latin-1 | emdash |
| AGL: Latin-2 | emdash |
| AGL: Latin-3 | emdash |
| AGL: Latin-4 | emdash |
| AGL: Latin-5 | emdash |
| Adobe Glyph List | emdash |
| digraph | -M |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| EM DASH | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Dash Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Em Dash | |
| ✘ | |
| Em Dash | |
| Em Dash | |
| ✘ | |
| Em Dash | |
| Em Dash | |
| Em Dash | |
| Em Dash | |
| Em Dash | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Em Dash | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Consonant_Placeholder | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Em Dash | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Continue | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Em Dash | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Break Opportunity Before and After | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Em Dash | |
| R |