En Dash

A symbol from the Punctuation collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.

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Unicode: U+2013
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Category: Punctuation

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About the en dash symbol

Named the En Dash, this typographic symbol is a horizontal bar that is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash. It belongs to the General Punctuation block and serves as an intermediate connector in various scripts. While it often functions silently to organize information, it is sometimes read aloud as the word to or through depending on its specific placement within a transcript or sentence.

In formal writing and typography, this character frequently indicates a range of numerical values, such as span of time or a sequence of pages. It appears often in professional documents to connect two words that share an equal relationship, such as a city-to-city flight or a joint partnership between two collaborators. Additionally, it is used in sports reporting to separate scores or as a minus sign in certain mathematical contexts when a standard hyphen is insufficient.