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See also: ⁓ and ~

〜	U+301C, 〜 WAVE DASH

Translingual

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The wave dash, used in some East Asian languages to indicate the starting point of a range.

Unicode includes the wave dash of the JIS X 0208 specification, but the representative glyph was incorrect until 2015.
- The correct shape as defined in JIS X 0208 is up-down-up just like a tilde, ⟨⟩ while Unicode depicted it as down-up-down ⟨⟩.
- Unix default fonts depict the correct JIS wave dash. Microsoft Windows default fonts depicted the incorrect Unicode wave dash, and used ～ (U+FF5E FULLWIDTH TILDE) for the concept of the wave dash to compensate. This disagreement may cause data loss in Unicode texts between Unix and Windows. Unicode corrected the error in 2015.^[1]^[2]

^ Hiroyuki Komatsu (2014), “Proposal for the modification of the sample character layout of WAVE_DASH (U+301C)”, in UTC Document Register‎^[1], The Unicode Consortium
^ “Errata Fixed in Unicode 8.0.0”, in The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0‎^[2], The Unicode Consortium, 2015

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Indicates the starting point of a range; from.
月(げつ)〜金(きん)曜(よう)日(び)
getsu~kin'yōbi
from Monday to Friday
Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.
ペルソナ〜トリニティ・ソウル〜
Perusona ~Toriniti Sōru~
Persona: Trinity Soul

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(nonstandard) alternative form of ー (“long vowel mark”)
- caption often found on drink vending machines
  あったか〜い
  attaka~i
  warm!