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⸻	U+2E3B, ⸻ THREE-EM DASH

Supplemental Punctuation

Translingual

A dash three ems in width. Compare the em dash (—), which is a single em in width.

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Separates titles, subtitles, chapter numbers, comments, and the body text.
- 1843, Harvard University, The Symbol and Odd Fellows' Magazine, Volumes 1-2 (in English), Harvard University, page 223:
  Original.
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  THE HISTORY OF A FIVE FRANC PIECE.
  BY P. G. L. WYMAN, JR.
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  IN TWELVE CHAPTERS⸻CHAPTER II.
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  […]
  Soon a man of respectable appearance, whom I took for a laborer, came in and […]
In a bibliography or reference list, replaces the name of the author when it is the same as the previous entry in the list.
Replaces a word that has been redacted or censored – compare the omission dash ⟨⸺⟩.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III (in English), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 152:
  It is Mr. Wickham’s intention to go into the regulars […] He has the promise of an ensigncy in General ⸻’s regiment, now quartered in the North.

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