U+2015 "―" Horizontal Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2015 "―" Horizontal Bar is a punctuation mark that resembles a long dash, typically spanning the width of two em dashes or the full width of a character cell in monospaced fonts. It is distinct from the hyphen, en dash, and em dash, and its primary function is to indicate a pause, break, or interruption in text, often used in dialogue or to set apart parenthetical phrases in certain typographic traditions. This character is part of the General Punctuation block and is less common in English usage, but it appears in other languages, such as Japanese, where it serves as a horizontal line or dash for indicating a break or omission.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2015 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Horizontal Bar |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Quotation Dash |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ― |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ― |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2015 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002015 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2015 |