Horizontal Bar ―
Symbol Meaning
Horizontal Bar. General Punctuation.
The symbol “Horizontal Bar” is included in the “Dashes” subblock of the “General Punctuation” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
quotation dash.
| Unicode Name | Horizontal Bar |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ― |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | General Punctuation |
| Unicode Subblock | Dashes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2015 |
| Simple case change | 2015 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Dash | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 80 95 | 226 128 149 | 14844053 | 11100010 10000000 10010101 |
| UTF-16BE | 20 15 | 32 21 | 8213 | 00100000 00010101 |
| UTF-16LE | 15 20 | 21 32 | 5408 | 00010101 00100000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 20 15 | 0 0 32 21 | 8213 | 00000000 00000000 00100000 00010101 |
| UTF-32LE | 15 20 00 00 | 21 32 0 0 | 354418688 | 00010101 00100000 00000000 00000000 |