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U+2014 CHARACTER

EM DASH

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EM DASH
Code Point U+2014
Decimal Value 8212
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 94
UTF-16 Code Unit 2014
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002014
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 14 LE: 14 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 14 LE: 14 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal —
HTML Hexadecimal —
HTML Named Entity —
CSS Escape \002014
JavaScript (ES6) \u2014
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2014
JSON Escape \u2014
Python \u2014
PHP "\u{2014}"
Java "\u2014"
C / C++ "\u2014"
Rust '\u{2014}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%94

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+2014 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 EM DASH

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

Identifier U+2014

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