Unicode Character "‒" (U+2012)

The character ‒ (FIGURE DASH) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2012. It is encoded in the General Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ‒.

Main Unicode Properties

Name FIGURE DASH
Unicode Codepoint U+2012
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Dash Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2012 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‒
HTML (hex) ‒
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%92
CSS \2012
JavaScript \u{2012}
JSON \u2012
C, C++ \U00002012
Java \u2012
Python \U00002012
Rust \u{2012}
Ruby \u{2012}

How to type "‒"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 1 2. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 1 2. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ‒
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ‒
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ‒
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x92
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2012
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002012

References