Figure Dash

U+2012
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ‒
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2012
Decimal
8210
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Dash Punctuation (Pd)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Dash

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Figure Dash.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
‒
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 92
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 12
UTF-32 Hex
00002012
CSS Escape
\2012
JavaScript Escape
\u2012
Python Escape
\u2012
URL Encoded
%E2%80%92
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