quotation dash

English

Noun

quotation dash (plural quotation dashes)

A dash used to introduce a line of dialogue.

Usage notes

In Unicode, those symbols can be used as quotation dashes:

— (em dash)
― (horizontal bar)

Translations

a dash used to introduce a line of dialogue

Hungarian: párbeszédjel
Swedish: talstreck (sv) n, pratminus (sv) n (literally “talk-minua”) (informal)

Further reading

Quotation dash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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