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U+2E40 · DOUBLE HYPHEN

Double Hyphen

  • CodepointU+2E40
  • NameDOUBLE HYPHEN
  • Decimal11840
  • BlockSupplemental Punctuation (U+2E00–U+2E7F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPd — Dash Punctuation
  • Unicode version7.0 (2014)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2E40 (⹀) is DOUBLE HYPHEN, a dash in the Supplemental Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).

How to type ⹀

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 B9 803 bytes
UTF-162E401 code unit
UTF-3200002E404 bytes
HTML decimal⹀
HTML hex⹀
CSS\2E40in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2E40
JSON\u2E40
Python\u2E40
Python\N{DOUBLE HYPHEN}by name
Java / C#\u2E40
C / C++\u2E40universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2E40}
Go\u2E40
Ruby\u2E40
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(11840)
URL-encoded%E2%B9%80percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+003D=Equals Sign U+30A0゠Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen U+1400᐀Canadian Syllabics Hyphen U+A4FF꓿Lisu Punctuation Full Stop
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Nearby in Supplemental Punctuation

All in block →
U+2E3A⸺Two-Em Dash U+2E3B⸻Three-Em Dash U+2E3C⸼Stenographic Full Stop U+2E3D⸽Vertical Six Dots U+2E3E⸾Wiggly Vertical Line U+2E3F⸿Capitulum U+2E41⹁Reversed Comma U+2E42⹂Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+2E43⹃Dash with Left Upturn U+2E44⹄Double Suspension Mark U+2E45⹅Inverted Low Kavyka U+2E46⹆Inverted Low Kavyka with Kavyka Above