U+2E40 Double Hyphen
U+2E40 was added to Unicode in version 7.0 (2014). It belongs to the block Supplemental 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 Neutral 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+2E40 behaves as Break After regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In Latin script, the double hyphen ⹀ is a punctuation mark that consists of two parallel hyphens. It was a development of the earlier double oblique hyphen ⸗ which developed from a Central European variant of the virgule slash, originally a form of scratch comma. Similar marks (see below) are used in other scripts.
In order to avoid it being confused with the equals sign =, the double hyphen is often given as double oblique hyphen in modern typography. The double hyphen is also not to be confused with two consecutive hyphens (--), which are often used to represent an em dash — or en dash –; that practice arose due to the limitations of typewriter character sets which did not have both hyphen and dash.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 11840 |
| UTF-8 | E2 B9 80 |
| UTF-16 | 2E 40 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 2E 40 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%B9%80 |
| HTML-Escape | ⹀ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â¹ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 7.0 (2014) | |
| DOUBLE HYPHEN | |
| — | |
| Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Dash Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Break After | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Double Hyphen | |
| R |