Wavy dash Emoji

Symbols

A horizontal, oscillating wavy line that mimics a handwritten flourish or a sine wave. It is distinct from a standard hyphen or dash due to its curved, serpent-like motion.

Usage Context

Frequently used in Japanese casual writing to indicate a prolonged vowel, a soft tone, or a sense of playfulness. It is often placed at the end of sentences to replace a period, making the tone feel less rigid than a . or a !.

History

Originating from Japanese punctuation marks, this character was integrated into the Unicode standard to support legacy East Asian encoding systems that required specific formatting for vertical and horizontal text layouts. It remains a staple for expressing casual emphasis in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

〰

Unicode

U+3030

Shortcode

:emoji_u3030:

HTML Entity

〰

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory punctuation

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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