Swung Dash
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Swung Dash has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁓
- Unicode
- U+2053
About this symbol
The swung dash stands in for the headword in a dictionary entry, so that under the word “hand”, ⁓ful and ⁓shake save printing the word again.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SWUNG DASH
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 4.0 (2003)
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