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|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]]<br/>Quotation dash |
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]]<br/>[[wikipedia:Non-English usage of quotation marks#Quotation dash|Quotation dash]] |
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|Indicates start of quoted text. |
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|rowspan="3" |' |
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|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]] |
|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe#ASCII encoding|Apostrophe]] |
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|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />Apostrophe |
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]] |
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|Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters. |
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Revision as of 13:17, 16 June 2011
N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.
Preferred | Usage | Deprecates | ||
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‐ | Hyphen | Joins words and syllables of a word (e.g. co‐operate). | - | Hyphen-minus |
‒ | Figure Dash | used as a dash within numbers (e.g. 555‒1212). | ||
– | En Dash | Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90). | ||
− | Minus sign | Indicates subtraction. | ||
— | Em Dash | Separate thoughts—like this | -- | Hyphen-minus ×2 |
― | Horizontal bar Quotation dash |
Introduces quoted text in some cases. | ||
‘ | Left single quotation mark | Indicates start of quoted text. | ' | Apostrophe |
’ | Right single quotation mark Apostrophe |
Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters. | ||
′ | Prime | Minutes; feet | ||
“ | Left double quotation mark | Indicates start of quoted text. | " | Quotation mark |
” | Right double quotation mark | Indicates end of quoted text. | ||
″ | Double prime | Seconds; inches | ||
〃 | Ditto mark | Indicates that the word(s) or figure(s) below which it is placed are to be repeated. | ||
… | Horizontal ellipsis | Indicates intentional omission in original text, or a pause in speech or thought. | ... | Full stop ×3 |
× | Multiplication | Indicate multiplication operation. | x | (the letter ‘X’) when used to indicate multiplication |