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 (), which is often used interchangeably with it.
The vertical wave dash () is not currently included in Unicode, but there is a similar symbol available called the wavy line (). It is created by rotating right (clockwise) the wavy dash symbol () 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.
Code reference Wave dash in Character sets standardsStandard Release Code-PointKu-Ten / Ku-Men-Ten Glyph NoteUnicode 1.0 1991 U+301C The glyph was different from the original JIS C 6226 or JIS X 0208. Unicode 8.0 2015 U+301C The glyph was fixed in JIS C 6226 1978 1-33 The wave was not stressed this much. JIS X 0208 1990 1-33 JIS X 0213 2000 1-1-33
Wave dash in each encoding Encode code Note ISO 2022-JP 0x2141 Shift JIS 0x8160 EUC-JP 0xA1C1 (= 0x2141 + 0x8080) UTF-8 0xE3809C
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