wave dash

{{Short description|East Asian character primarily used to represent a range}}

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| unicode = {{unichar|301C|WAVE DASH}}

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Wave dash ({{unichar|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 ({{unichar|FF5E|FULLWIDTH TILDE|nlink=Halfwidth and fullwidth forms}}), which is often used interchangeably with it.

The vertical wave dash (16px) is not currently included in Unicode, but there is a similar symbol available called the wavy line ({{unichar|2307|WAVY LINE}}). It is created by rotating right (clockwise) the wavy dash symbol ({{unichar|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.{{cite book|author=Ken Lunde|title=CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cn7jnk9WwZEC&pg=PA346|year=1999|publisher=O'Reilly Media |isbn=978-1-56592-224-2|pages=345–346, 348}}{{Citation|url=http://unicode.org/reports/tr50/|title=Unicode Vertical Text Layout|website=Unicode |at=Table 4. Glyph Changes for Vertical Orientation}}