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See also: [U+2010 HYPHEN], - [U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS], [U+2212 MINUS SIGN], [U+2014 EM DASH], [U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR], and [U+4E00 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E00]

U+2013, –
EN DASH

[U+2012]
General Punctuation
[U+2014]

Translingual

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Punctuation mark

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(English name en dash) (Alt + 0150)

  1. Indicates ranges.
    610 yearssix to ten years
    • 1881 March–April, Frederick Schwatka, “In the Land of the Midnight Sun”, in Good Company, volume VII, number XIX, XX (in English), Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, part III (The Franklin Search of 1878–79–80), page 11, column 2:
      The American Franklin Search Party of 18787980 originated in information supposed to have been obtained by American whalers prosecuting their vocations in Repulse Bay, Rae’s Welcome, and other estuaries of North Hudson’s Bay.
  2. Indicates items in a list.
    Things to buy:
    Toilet paper
    Towels
  3. alternative form of (indicates a quotation or a line of dialogue).
    Could you direct me to the bus station?
    It's just on your right at the end of the road.

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  1. (poetry) alternative form of

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:–.

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Punctuation

English

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  1. Used in a compound term when the constituent parts are already hyphenated.
    high-priorityhigh-pressure tasks
  2. Used to hide letters
    Gd for God
  3. Used to connect compound terms with the sense of "to" or to show a relationship
    The BostonWashington race
    bloodbrain barrier
  4. Used to connect a spaced or hyphenated term.
    • 1998: John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature, page 182 (Routledge; →ISBN
      Argent the capitalist, Leeson implies, much more overtly than was possible for Stevenson, who lacked the benefit of hindsight which informs Leeson’s latetwentieth-century text, that capitalism is a form of piracy.
    • 2006, Alison Culliford, Night+Day Paris (Cool Cities), Pulse Guides, →ISBN, page 59:
      The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkiecarrying personal assistant in a Star Trekish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar.
    • 2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 78:
      Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the postcivil rights era.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:–.

Synonyms

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  • (hide letters): (hyphen)

German

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Symbol

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  1. Used to replace two zeroes after the decimal point in monetary values in running text (in tables, the em dash is used).
    Dieses Gerät kostet 12,– DM.
  2. Used to replace a zero before the decimal point, i. e. for monetary values below 1.
    Diese Packung Milch kostet –,89 DM.

Hungarian

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Etymology

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First recognized in the 10th edition of A magyar helyesírás szabályai (“The rules of Hungarian orthography”) in 1954.

Punctuation mark

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  1. The nagykötőjel, used to connect words or parts of words:[1]
    1. Used to connect proper nouns to indicate an occasional (non-fixed) relationship.
      1. Used to connect names of multiple people (e.g. authors of a work) in a coordinative compound.
        MerriamWebster-szótárMerriamWebster dictionary
        GuillainBarré-szindrómaGuillainBarré syndrome
      2. Used to connect proper nouns to indicate a “between” relationship.
        BudapestBécs-járatBudapestVienna line
    2. Used to connect names of peoples or languages to indicate an occasional relationship.
      lettlitván határLatvianLithuanian border
      angolmagyar zsebszótárEnglishHungarian pocket dictionary
    3. Used to connect names of academic programs or degrees.
      földrajztörténelem szakGeography and History program
    4. Used to connect terms to indicate a “from ... to ...” relationship, i.e., a range between a starting point and an endpoint (e.g. in time or space).
      a 1619. századbanin the 16th19th centuries
      az októberdecemberi időszakbanin the OctoberDecember period
      184849-es forradalom és szabadságharcHungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 18481849
      100104. oldalpages 100104
    5. Used in names of types of machines containing numbers.
      Apollo11Apollo 11
    6. (sometimes proscribed) Used in scientific literature to connect terms to indicate a “between” relationship or a combination of things.
      véragy gátbloodbrain barrier
      izoniazidrifampicinpirazinamidetambutol kezelésisoniazid-rifampicin-pyrazinamide-ethambutol therapy

References

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  1. ^ Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 353–354

Further reading

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Lithuanian

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Lithuanian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lt

Punctuation mark

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  1. Indicates zero (omission) of the present tense of būti.