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破折號

简破折号 · 繁破折號

Mandarin · pinyin pò zhé hào

dash
Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)

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破: pò · break, ruin, destroy; rout
折: zhé · break off, snap; bend
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号: hào · mark, sign; symbol; number

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4–2–4 · po4 zhe2 hao4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

po3 zit3 hou6

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noun

a Chinese punctuation consisting of two continuous em dashes: ⟨——⟩ (U+2014, sometimes a box-drawing character: ⟨──⟩ [U+2500] is used instead), used similarly but not identically to an English dash

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