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1. Used to separate digits in telephone numbers.

   My telephone number is 101‒555‒1234.

2. (poetry) Used to mark a long/stressed syllable in a metrical foot or verse: e.g. ⟨⏑‒⟩ iamb, ⟨‒⏑⟩ trochee, ⟨‒‒⟩ spondee.

Don't confuse the figure dash with the following characters:

• – (en dash, to indicate ranges)
• − (minus sign, for subtraction)

• - (hyphen-minus, a catch-all character for various dash and dash-like characters)

Punctuation