Horizontal Bar
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Horizontal Bar has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ―
- Unicode
- U+2015
About this symbol
The horizontal bar, also called a quotation dash, introduces dialogue in some languages and printing traditions instead of quotation marks, with a new line for each speaker.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HORIZONTAL BAR
- Also called
- Quotation dash
- Type
- Dash
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Dashes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Long dash introducing quoted text
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