― Horizontal Bar

All symbols
WritingU+2015 · General Punctuation

Horizontal Bar

U+2015 · decimal 8213 · General Punctuation

Every way to write it

6 forms
HTML entity

―

This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.

CSS content

\2015

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u2015

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u2015

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%E2%80%95

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

E2 80 95

3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

Typing it without copying

system picker
macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search horizontal bar

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 8213

Groups it belongs to

Characters near it

8
Code pointU+2015
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo