—

Character	—
Unicode name	EM DASH
Unicode block	General Punctuation
Codepoint	U+2014

See also: ‐, –, -, −, and 一

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TranslingualEdit

Punctuation markEdit

—

1. Indicate that a sentence is unfinished because the speaker has been interrupted.
2. Demarcates parenthetical thought. See — —.
3. Indicates a logical consequence. See also : ‎(“the colon”).
   • 1962, Jack Frohlichstein, Mathematical Fun, Games and Puzzles, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486207896, page 9:

     Bet anyone he can't correctly name the next highest number to every number which you will give him. […]

     43 — he will say 44

     87 — he will say 88

     123 — he will say 124

4. Indicates aposiopesis, an abrupt breaking-off in speech. See also … ‎(“the ellipsis”).
5. Separates a term from its definition.
   • 2011, Adam Rizvi, Click Start to Begin: Windows XP Basics, Click Start Publishing Ltd., ISBN 9780956780706, page 22:

     Refresh — This will refresh the current folder, updating it with any new files or settings.

6. Indicates a lack of data in a table
7. Alternative form of ― ‎(“horizontal bar; quotation dash; introduces a line of dialogue”)

QuotationsEdit

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:—.

Derived termsEdit

• — —

Usage notesEdit

In English, this symbol is called em dash.

Derived termsEdit

• ﹘ (small form variant)
• ︱ (vertical variant)
• ⸺ (two-em dash)
• ⸻ (three-em dash)

See alsoEdit

quotation marks and quotation dashes in all languages (edit)

Afrikaans: “ ”, ‘ ’, „ ”, ‚ ’ Albanian: „ “, ‘ ’ Arabic: “ ”, « » Armenian: « » Azerbaijani: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, " ", ‘ ’, ' ' Basque: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, ‘ ’ Belarusian: « », “ ” Bulgarian: „ “, ’ ’, ‘ ’, « », ’ ’, ‘ ’, — Catalan: « », “ ”, ‘ ’ Chinese: “ ”, ‘ ’, 「 」, 『 』 Czech: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Danish: » «, „ “, › ‹, ‚ ’, ” ”, ’ ’ Dutch: ‘ ’, “ ”, ‚ ’, „ ” English: “ ”, ‘ ’ Esperanto: “ ”, ‘ ’, — Estonian: „ “, « » Filipino: “ ”, ‘ ’ Finnish: ” ”, ’ ’, » » French: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, — Georgian: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ German: „ “, ‚ ‘   ;   » «, › ‹   ;   regional: « », ‹ › Greek: « », “ ”, — Hungarian: „ ”, » «, — Icelandic: „ “, ‚ ‘ Indonesian: “ ”, ‘ ’

Interlingua: “ ”, ‘ ’ Irish: “ ”, ‘ ’ Italian: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, ‘ ’ Japanese: 「 」, 『 』 Korean: “ ”, ‘ ’, 『 』, 「 」 Latvian: « », „ “ Lithuanian: « », „ “ Lower Sorbian: „ “, ‚ ‘ Macedonian: „ “, ’ ‘ Norwegian: « », „ ”, ’ ’, ‚ ’ Persian: « » Polish: „ ”, « », » «, — Portuguese: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », — Russian: « », „ “, „ ”, — Serbo-Croatian: „ ”, ” ”, ‘ ’, ’ ’, „ “, » « Slovak: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Slovene: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Spanish: « », “ ”, ‘ ’, — Swedish: ” ”, ’ ’, » », » «, ’ ’, — Thai: “ ”, ‘ ’ Turkish: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », › ‹, — Ukrainian: « », „ ”, ‚ ‘ Vietnamese: “ ”, — Welsh: ‘ ’, “ ”

quotation marks - all matched-pairs

Curved double quotation marks: “ ”, ” ”, „ ”, „ “ Curved single quotation marks: ‘ ’, ’ ’, ‚ ’, ‚ ‘, ’ ‘ Straight quotation marks: " " Apostrophes: ' '

Guillemets: « », » «, » » Single guillemets: ‹ ›, › ‹ Corner brackets: 「 」, 『 』

quotation marks and quotation dashes - all single characters

Curved double quotation marks: “, ”, „ Curved single quotation marks: ‘, ’, ‚ Straight quotation mark: " Apostrophe: '

Guillemets: «, » Single guillemets: ‹, › Corner brackets: 「, 」, 『, 』 Quotation dashes: — (em dash), ― (horizontal bar), – (en dash)

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, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

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

ReferencesEdit

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RussianEdit

Wikipedia ^ru

VerbEdit

— • ‎(—) impf

1. Indicates zero (omission) of the present tense of быть ‎(bytʹ). Called тире́ ‎(tirɛ́) in Russian.

   Вре́мя — де́ньги.‎

   Vrémja — dénʹgi.

   Time is money.

Usage notesEdit

• "—" is not used when the subject is a pronoun; e.g., я ру́сский ‎(ja rússkij, “I am Russian”).