⸻

⸻ U+2E3B, ⸻ THREE-EM DASH ← ⸺ [U+2E3A] Supplemental Punctuation ⸼ → [U+2E3C]

Translingual

Etymology

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

Symbol

⸻

1. 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.
     ⸻
     THE HISTORY OF A FIVE FRANC PIECE.
     BY P. G. L. WYMAN, JR.
     ⸻
     IN TWELVE CHAPTERS⸻CHAPTER II.
     ⸻
     […]
     Soon a man of respectable appearance, whom I took for a laborer, came in and […]

2. In a bibliography or reference list, replaces the name of the author when it is the same as the previous entry in the list.
3. 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.