Em dash

Marks an abrupt break in thought or sets off a parenthetical clause—like this. American style sets it closed, with no surrounding spaces; British style often prefers a spaced en dash instead. It is longer than both the en dash (–) and the hyphen (-), its two most common lookalikes.

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  • Symbol
  • UnicodeU+2014
  • HTML entity—
  • CSS content\2014
  • JavaScript\u2014
  • URL encoded%E2%80%94
  • Windows Alt codeAlt+0151

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