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Wave dash

Wave dash

East Asian character primarily used to represent a range

Wave dash (U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH) is a character represented in Japanese character encoding, usually used to represent a range. The wave dash is similar to, but not the same as, the tilde character (U+FF5E ～ FULLWIDTH TILDE), which is often used interchangeably with it.

Quick Facts 〜, In Unicode ...

The vertical wave dash () is not currently included in Unicode, but there is a similar symbol available called the wavy line (U+2307 ⌇ WAVY LINE). It is created by rotating right (clockwise) the wavy dash symbol (U+3030 〰 WAVY DASH) to form a vertical wave-like pattern.

Wave dash is also written in vertical text layout. Vertical wave dash is the vertical form by rotation and flip in Unicode and JIS C 6226.[1][2]

See also

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References

  1. [1]
    Ken Lunde (1999). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing. O'Reilly Media. pp. 345–346, 348. ISBN 978-1-56592-224-2.
  2. [2]
    "Unicode Vertical Text Layout", Unicode, Table 4. Glyph Changes for Vertical Orientation
  3. [3]
    Katsuhiro Ogata, UnicodeのWAVE DASH例示字形が、25年ぶりに修正された理由(5/5), Internet Watch (in Japanese)
  4. [4]
    JIS X 0208 (1990) to Unicode, www.unicode.org, 1994


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