dash

Summary

dash ranks in the top 0.67% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,618 views/month, #518 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• dash is a type of punctuation mark^[2].
• dash's Commons category is recorded as Dashes^[3].
• dash's Unicode character is recorded as –^[4].
• dash's Unicode character is recorded as —^[5].
• dash's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[6].
• dash's different from is recorded as ꟷ^[7].
• dash's different from is recorded as ⁓^[8].
• dash's different from is recorded as -^[9].
• dash's derivative work is recorded as Morse dash^[10].
• dash's greater than is recorded as hyphen^[11].

Body

Definition and Type

dash is a type of punctuation mark^[2].

Influence

Things named for dash include Hyphen War^[12], a naming dispute^[13], in Czechoslovakia^[14].

Why It Matters

dash ranks in the top 0.67% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,618 views/month, #518 of 77,819).^[1] dash has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[15] dash is known by 101 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[16]

Entities named for dash include Hyphen War^[12], a naming dispute^[13], in Czechoslovakia^[14].