‒

‒	U+2012, ‒ FIGURE DASH

← ‑
[U+2011]

General Punctuation

– →
[U+2013]

Translingual

Symbol

‒ (English symbol name figure dash)

Used to separate digits in telephone numbers.
My telephone number is 101‒555‒1234.

Usage notes

Don't confuse the figure dash with the following characters:

– (en dash, to indicate ranges)
− (minus sign, for subtraction)

See also

- (hyphen-minus, a catch-all character for various dash and dash-like characters)

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
braces ( { } )
brackets ( [ ] )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
fraction slash ( ⁄ )
guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct ( · )
interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
parentheses ( ( ) )
period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? )
quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
quotation marks (informal, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; )
slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / )
space ( )

Further reading

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