U+2053 "⁓" Swung Dash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁓
U+2053 "⁓" Swung Dash is a typographic symbol that resembles a wavy or tilde-like horizontal line, historically used in Latin abbreviation conventions to indicate a missing letter or syllable, such as in words like "p⁓" for "per" or "pro." In modern contexts, it is often employed as a decorative or stylistic alternative to a standard dash, or to represent a range or connection in informal writing, though it remains distinct from the similar-looking tilde (~) U+007E in both its intended function and its position within the Unicode character block for general punctuation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2053 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Swung Dash |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2053 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002053 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2053 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |