Wave dash () is a character represented in Japanese character encoding, usually used to represent a range. The wave dash is similar to, but not the same as, the tilde character (), which is often used interchangeably with it.

The vertical wave dash () is not currently included in Unicode, but there is a similar symbol available called the wavy line (). It is created by rotating right (clockwise) the wavy dash symbol () to form a vertical wave-like pattern.

Wave dash is also written in vertical text layout. Vertical wave dash is the vertical form by rotation and flip in Unicode and JIS C 6226.

See also 

 Dash#Swung dash
 Tilde#Unicode and Shift JIS encoding of wave dash
 Japanese punctuation#Wave dash

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Encodings of Japanese
Typographical symbols
Punctuation