# Wave dash

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{{Short description|East Asian character primarily used to represent a range}}
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{{infobox symbol
| mark = 〜
| unicode = {{unichar|301C|WAVE DASH}}
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'''Wave dash''' ({{unichar|301C|WAVE DASH}}) is a character represented in [Japanese character encoding](/source/Japanese_language_and_computers) mainly used as a [dash](/source/dash) and [chōonpu](/source/ch%C5%8Donpu). The wave dash is similar to, but not the same as, the [tilde](/source/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](/source/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts). Vertical wave dash is the vertical form by rotation and flip in Unicode and JIS C 6226.<ref name="Lunde1999">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|url=http://unicode.org/reports/tr50/|title=Unicode Vertical Text Layout|website=Unicode |at=Table 4. Glyph Changes for Vertical Orientation}}</ref>

== Code reference ==
{|class="wikitable collapsible" style="text-align:center;"
|+ style="text-align:left;" | Wave dash in [Character sets](/source/Character_sets) standards
!Standard        !! Release !! Code-Point<br /><small>Ku-Ten / Ku-Men-Ten</small> !! Glyph !! style="width:15em;"|Note
|-
|[Unicode](/source/Unicode) 1.0 || 1991    || [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-3.2/U32-3000.pdf U+301C {{sc2|WAVE DASH}}] ||24px ||style="text-align:left;"| The glyph was different from the original JIS C 6226 or JIS X 0208.
|-
| [Unicode](/source/Unicode) 8.0 || 2015    || [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf U+301C {{sc2|WAVE DASH}}] ||24px ||style="text-align:left;"| The glyph was fixed in {{Citation|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/erratafixed.html|title=Errata fixed in Unicode 8.0.0|publisher=The Unicode Consortium|date=6 Oct 2014}}
|-
| JIS C 6226      || 1978    || 1-33        ||24px ||style="text-align:left;"| The wave was not stressed this much.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/img/iw/docs/691/658/html/fig_5.png.html|script-title=ja:UnicodeのWAVE DASH例示字形が、25年ぶりに修正された理由(5/5) |website=Internet Watch|author=Katsuhiro Ogata |language=ja}}</ref>
|-
| [JIS X 0208](/source/JIS_X_0208)  || 1990    || 1-33        ||24px ||
|-
| [JIS X 0213](/source/JIS_X_0213)  || 2000    || 1-1-33      ||24px ||
|}

{|class="wikitable  collapsible"
|+ style="text-align:left;" | Wave dash in each encoding<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0208.TXT|title=JIS X 0208 (1990) to Unicode|publisher=www.unicode.org|date=1994}}</ref>
! Encode        !! code     !! Note
|-
| [ISO 2022-JP](/source/ISO_2022-JP) || 0x2141 ||
|-
| [Shift JIS](/source/Shift_JIS) || 0x8160   ||
|-
| [EUC-JP](/source/EUC-JP)    || 0xA1C1   || (= 0x2141 + 0x8080)
|-
| [UTF-8](/source/UTF-8)     || 0xE3809C ||
|}

== See also ==
{{Wiktionary|〜}}
* [Dash#Swung dash](/source/Dash)
* [Tilde#Unicode and Shift JIS encoding of wave dash](/source/Tilde)
* [Japanese punctuation#Wave dash](/source/Japanese_punctuation)

== References ==
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Category:Encodings of Japanese
Category:Typographical symbols
Category:Punctuation

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