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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	EM DASH
General Punctuation	U+2014

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Symbol 1.2 See also 2 Russian 2.1 Symbol

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1. Indicate that a sentence is unfinished because the speaker has been interrupted.
2. Demarcates parenthetical thought
3. Indicates aposiopesis

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( ⟨ ⟩ ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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1. Indicates that the present tense of быть has been omitted.

   Я — русский.

   I am Russian.