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This template inserts the code ‍–‍, producing a U+2013 – EN DASH (–) with a U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (‍) on each of its sides. This prevents line break at the endash.

Usage

This can be used, for example, to prevent line break as in:

Using {{nbnd}} (or its aliases: {{nbndash}},{{Non breaking en dash}}) between the years force to produce:

2020{{ nbnd}}2022 → 2020‍–‍2022

1952{{ nbndash}}1960 → 1952‍–‍1960

1860{{ Non breaking en dash}}1865 → 1860‍–‍1865

See also

• {{·}}, which produces a spaced bold interpunct ("middot"): " · "
• {{•}}, which produces a spaced bullet-point: " • "
• {{\}}, which produces a spaced (forward-)slash: " / "
• {{em dash}}, which produces an (unspaced) em dash: "—"
• {{en dash}}, which produces an (unspaced) en dash: "–"
• {{spaced en dash}}, which produces a non-breaking space, followed by an en dash, and then a breaking space: " – "
• {{spaced en dash space}}, which produces an en dash preceded and followed by a non-breaking space: " – "
• {{soft hyphen}}, which produces a soft hyphen to allow a line break with a visible hyphen in a long word if needed
• MOS:DASH
• Non-breaking space
• User:Tony1/How to use hyphens and dashes