Unicode Character "—" (U+2014)

The character — (Em Dash) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2014. 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 Em Dash
Unicode Codepoint U+2014
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+2014 Conversion

HTML (decimal) —
HTML (hex) —
HTML (named) —
URL Escape Code %E2%80%94
CSS \002014
JavaScript, JSON \u2014
C, C++, Java \u2014
Python \u2014
Rust \u{2014}
Ruby \u2014

How to type "—"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 1 4. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 1 4. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x94
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2014
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002014

Characters based on "—" (U+2014)

References