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U+2012 · FIGURE DASH

Figure Dash

CodepointU+2012
NameFIGURE DASH
Decimal8210
BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPd — Dash Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 80 92`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2012`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002012`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`‒`
HTML hex	`‒`
CSS	`\2012`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2012`
JSON	`\u2012`
Python	`\u2012`
Python	`\N{FIGURE DASH}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2012`
C / C++	`\u2012`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2012}`
Go	`\u2012`
Ruby	`\u2012`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8210)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%80%92`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →

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