What is the meaning of —?
Demarcates parenthetical thought. See — —.
Indicates a logical consequence.
Indicates aposiopesis, an abrupt breaking-off in speech. See also … (“the ellipsis”).
Separates a term from its definition.
Indicates a lack of data in a table.
Alternative form of ― (“horizontal bar; quotation dash; introduces a line of dialogue”)
Used to censor letters in obscene words.
Used to replace part or all of a person's name, a place name, a date, or so forth.
Used as a ditto mark in lists or tables to indicate a repetition of appropriate content above.
the letter sequence ⟨th⟩
Abbreviation of the.
the sound sequences /(V)nd/, /(V)nt/
the suffixes or sequences mand, mend, mond, -ment
Indicates zero (omission) of the present tense of быть (bytʹ). Called тире́ (tirɛ́) in Russian.
Used in — —.
Replaces ‐ in some appositions, where hyphen would be used to connect the appositive word and the word in apposition if neither of them were a phrase.
— is not used when the subject is a pronoun; e.g. я ру́сский (ja rússkij, “I am Russian”) or with predicative adjectives.
— — are preferred over ( ) when the supplemental information is necessary to understand author's point and can't be dropped.
A dash or a hyphen is used in Russian apposition when the first word (or first words) is not a form of address (e.g. товарищ (tovarišč)) and the second word is an appellative.
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