en dash

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter n or N, or approximately half the width of an em dash.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 短劃線 /短划线 — typographical symbol –
• Czech: pomlčka — typographical symbol –
• Dutch: half kastlijntje — typographical symbol –
• Finnish: n-viiva — typographical symbol –
• Finnish: lyhyt ajatusviiva — typographical symbol –
• French: tiret demi-cadratin — typographical symbol –
• German: Halbgeviertstrich — typographical symbol –
• Greek: παύλα (pávla) — typographical symbol –
• Hungarian: félkvirtmínusz — typographical symbol –
• Icelandic: tilstrik — typographical symbol –
• Icelandic: stutt þankastrik — typographical symbol –
• Irish: ein-dais — typographical symbol –
• Italian: lineetta enne — typographical symbol –
• Macedonian: средна црта (sredna crta) — typographical symbol –
• Persian: سهچهارمخط (se-čahârom-xat) — typographical symbol –
• Polish: półpauza — typographical symbol –
• Portuguese: meia-risca — typographical symbol –
• Portuguese: meio-traço — typographical symbol –
• Russian: дефи́с (defís) — typographical symbol –
• Spanish: semirraya — typographical symbol –
• Swedish: tankstreck — typographical symbol –
• Swedish: halvfyrkantsminus — typographical symbol –