Wave dash
East Asian character primarily used to represent a range
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Wave dash (U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH) is a character represented in Japanese character encoding mainly used as a dash and chōonpu. 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.
| 〜 | |
|---|---|
Wave dash | |
| In Unicode | U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH |
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]
Code reference
| Standard | Release | Code-Point Ku-Ten / Ku-Men-Ten | Glyph | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode 1.0 | 1991 | U+301C WAVE DASH |  | The glyph was different from the original JIS C 6226 or JIS X 0208. |
| Unicode 8.0 | 2015 | U+301C WAVE DASH |  | The glyph was fixed in Errata fixed in Unicode 8.0.0, The Unicode Consortium, 6 Oct 2014 |
| JIS C 6226 | 1978 | 1-33 | | The wave was not stressed this much.[3] |
| JIS X 0208 | 1990 | 1-33 | | |
| JIS X 0213 | 2000 | 1-1-33 | |
| Encode | code | Note |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 2022-JP | 0x2141 | |
| Shift JIS | 0x8160 | |
| EUC-JP | 0xA1C1 | (= 0x2141 + 0x8080) |
| UTF-8 | 0xE3809C |
See also
