quotation dash

English

Noun

quotation dash (plural quotation dashes)

1. 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