―

Character	―
Unicode name	HORIZONTAL BAR
General Punctuation	U+2015

Translingual

Punctuation mark

―

1. Introduces quoted text.
   • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 231:

     ― Harry, você não pode mencionar uma coisa dessas numa carta! [...] ― Tudo bem, tudo bem, então não vou contar a ele, tampouco!

     ― Harrry, you can't mention such a thing in a letter! [...] ― All right, all right, so I won't tell him either.

Usage notes

In English, this symbol is called a horizontal bar.

See also

Dash#Horizontal bar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal bar

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )