How to type Figure Dash
To type Figure Dash (‒), press Alt + 8210 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ‒ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2012 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2012 on Linux, or 2012 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Figure Dash
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2012
- Windows
- Alt + 8210 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8210 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ‒ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2012 | FIGURE DASH |
Symbols related to Figure Dash
Unicode's confusables table, the one registrars use against spoofed domains, lists ‐ and – as close enough to be mistaken for it.
Other punctuation symbols
‒ lives in the General Punctuation block (U+2000-U+206F), dashes, quotation marks, spaces and reference marks used across languages. Within Unicode it is classified as Pd, a dash. Every hyphen and dash variant shares this category.
What ‒ gets confused with
Unicode's own confusables table, the one used to catch lookalike domain names, groups ‒ with - (U+002D, Hyphen-Minus), ‐ (U+2010, Hyphen) and – (U+2013, En Dash). They are separate characters that render close enough to be mistaken for one another, so a search or a string comparison will separate them where your eye will not. If Figure Dash is not matching where you expect it to, one of these is the usual reason.
How Figure Dash behaves in software
‒ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Figure Dash
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2012 |
| Decimal | 8210 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 92 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 12 |
| HTML entity | ‒ |
| HTML numeric | ‒ or ‒ |
| CSS | \2012 |
| JavaScript | \u2012 |
| Python | \u2012 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%80%92 |
| SVG | 2012.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ‒ arrives as ‒
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 80 92 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.