Glyph for U+2014 Source: Noto Sans
U+2014 Em Dash
U+2014 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 . Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context . It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral . When changing direction it is not mirrored . It will not end a sentence . U+2014 offers a line break opportunity at its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph .
The CLDR project calls this character “em dash” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, 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.
Typical uses of dashes are to mark a break in a sentence, or to set off an explanatory remark (similar to parenthesis), or to show spans of time or ranges of values.
The em dash is sometimes used as a leading character to identify the source of a quoted text.
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
LA TE X \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
Complete Record
Property
Value
Age (age)
1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)
EM DASH
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
—
Block (blk)
General Punctuation
General Category (gc)
Dash Punctuation
Script (sc)
Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)
Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)
Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)
none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Lowercase (Lower)
✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Lowercase Mapping (lc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Uppercase (Upper)
✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Uppercase Mapping (uc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Titlecase Mapping (tc)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Case Folding (cf)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)
✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)
✘
Case Ignorable (CI)
✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
✘
Cased (Cased)
✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
✘
Dash (Dash)
✔
Deprecated (Dep)
✘
Diacritic (Dia)
✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
✘
Emoji Component (EComp)
✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
✘
Emoji (Emoji)
✘
Extender (Ext)
✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)
Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
✘
Hex Digit (Hex)
✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)
✘
ID Continue (IDC)
✘
ID Start (IDS)
✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
✘
IDSU (IDSU)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)
0
Ideographic (Ideo)
✘
InCB (InCB)
None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)
NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)
Consonant_Placeholder
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
—
Join Control (Join_C)
✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
✘
Math (Math)
✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)
Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)
Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)
Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)
Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)
✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)
✘
Other Math (OMath)
✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)
✘
Regional Indicator (RI)
✘
Radical (Radical)
✘
Sentence Break (SB)
Sentence Continue
Soft Dotted (SD)
✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
✘
Variation Selector (VS)
✘
Word Break (WB)
Other
White Space (WSpace)
✘
XID Continue (XIDC)
✘
XID Start (XIDS)
✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)
None
East Asian Width (ea)
ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)
Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
—
Joining Group (jg)
No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)
Non Joining
Line Break (lb)
Break Opportunity Before and After
Numeric Type (nt)
none
Numeric Value (nv)
not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)
Glyph for U+2014 Em Dash
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)
R