En Dash symbol
Type :endash: · Punctuation
What – is for
The range dash: 10–20, Monday–Friday, the 1914–1918 war. It also links a compound where one side is already two words, as in a New York–London flight. Narrower than an em dash, wider than a hyphen, and the one most people skip without realising it exists.
How to type –
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:endash: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + Hyphen
Windows
Alt + 0150
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:endash: :ndash::en_dash: On the web
HTML –
Unicode U+2013
What – gets mistaken for
em dash
Longer, and for interrupting a sentence rather than joining a range.
hyphen
Shorter. Fine in phone numbers and compound words, wrong in a number range if you are being careful.
More from punctuation
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