A dash (⁓) in the form of a reverse s on its side.
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Example sentencesExamples
The design is minimalist, with simple structure, little metalanguage and no swung dashes.
No more swung dashes - each compound or derivative, each headword that is repeated in a phrase or example sentence, is given in full.
It sounds pretty, but when you're blogging, it's a lot better to use an ellipsis, even if your tone is swinging; strictly speaking, the swung dash is never to be used as a punctuation mark.
Nowadays, however, swung dash is used wrongly in everyday language regardless of writing forms.
The ‘swung dash’ or ‘approximation’ sign is not quite the same as tilde in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for both (compare angle brackets).
Definition of swung dash in US English:
swung dash
nounˌswəŋ ˈdæʃˌswəNG ˈdaSH
A dash (⁓) in the form of a reverse s on its side.
代字号（~）
Example sentencesExamples
The ‘swung dash’ or ‘approximation’ sign is not quite the same as tilde in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for both (compare angle brackets).
It sounds pretty, but when you're blogging, it's a lot better to use an ellipsis, even if your tone is swinging; strictly speaking, the swung dash is never to be used as a punctuation mark.
The design is minimalist, with simple structure, little metalanguage and no swung dashes.
Nowadays, however, swung dash is used wrongly in everyday language regardless of writing forms.
No more swung dashes - each compound or derivative, each headword that is repeated in a phrase or example sentence, is given in full.