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punctuation
Em Dash — - Copy & Paste
Em Dash copy and paste symbol for punctuation, lists, bios, captions, notes, and design accents.
Keyboard shortcuts for —
| Windows | Alt+8212 |
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| Mac | Use Character Viewer, or copy from this page. |
| Mobile | Copy from this page and paste into any app. |
Unicode and HTML code
| Unicode | U+2014 |
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| HTML entity | — |
| Category | punctuation |
When to use —
Use the em dash when you need a clean text character for documents, bios, captions, notes, labels, spreadsheets, web pages or chat messages. Since it is Unicode text, it can be copied and pasted almost anywhere.