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U+2013 CHARACTER

EN DASH

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EN DASH
Code Point U+2013
Decimal Value 8211
General Category Dash Punctuation (Pd) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 93
UTF-16 Code Unit 2013
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002013
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 13 LE: 13 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 13 LE: 13 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal –
HTML Hexadecimal –
HTML Named Entity –
CSS Escape \002013
JavaScript (ES6) \u2013
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2013
JSON Escape \u2013
Python \u2013
PHP "\u{2013}"
Java "\u2013"
C / C++ "\u2013"
Rust '\u{2013}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%93

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2013 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A – Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A – Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A – Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A – Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name EN DASH

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2013

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