Two-em Dash

U+2E3A
BMP Unicode 6.1
Character
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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+2E3A
Decimal
11834
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Dash Punctuation (Pd)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Dash

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 — Two-em Dash.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 B8 BA
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
2E 3A
UTF-32 Hex
00002E3A
CSS Escape
\2E3A
JavaScript Escape
\u2E3A
Python Escape
\u2E3A
URL Encoded
%E2%B8%BA
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