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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)
- 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) ( " ) ( ' )
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