Em Dash

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

punctuation

About this character

Em Dash belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2014. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2014
Hex: 2014
Decimal: 8212
HTML: —
CSS: \2014
JavaScript: \u2014
Python: \u2014
UTF-8: E2 80 94

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Hyphen U+2010 Similar
Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2011 Similar
Figure Dash U+2012 Similar
En Dash U+2013 Similar
Horizontal Bar U+2015 Similar
Double Vertical Line U+2016 Similar
Double Low Line U+2017 Similar
Left Single Quotation Mark U+2018 Similar
Right Single Quotation Mark U+2019 Similar
Single Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201A Similar
Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201B Similar
Left Double Quotation Mark U+201C Similar
Right Double Quotation Mark U+201D Similar
Double Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201E Similar
Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201F Similar
Dagger U+2020 Similar
Double Dagger U+2021 Similar
Bullet U+2022 Similar
Triangular Bullet U+2023 Similar
One Dot Leader U+2024 Similar
Two Dot Leader U+2025 Similar
Horizontal Ellipsis U+2026 Similar
Hyphenation Point U+2027 Similar
Per Mille Sign U+2030 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.