En Dash
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0150 on the numeric keypad to insert en dash.
- Alt code
- Alt+0150
- HTML entity
- –
- Unicode
- U+2013
About this symbol
The en dash is half the length of an em dash, approximately the width of a lowercase n. Its main job is ranges of numbers, as in 1914–1918 or pages 10–12, where it reads as “to”.
It is longer than the hyphen on the keyboard, which joins words, and shorter than the em dash. Because most keyboards have no key for it, an Alt code is the quickest way to type it on Windows.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- EN DASH
- Type
- Dash
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Dashes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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