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Particle

 * 1) The wave dash, used in some East Asian languages to indicate the starting point of a range.

Usage notes

 * When the Unicode Consortium included the wave dash of the JIS X 0208 specification, they made an error in the shape definition. The correct shape as defined in JIS X 0208 is up-down-up just like a tilde while the Unicode Consortium defined it as down-up-down. Unix operating systems show the correct shape as in JIS. Microsoft Windows showed the incorrect shape as in Unicode, and used the fullwidth tilde ～ for the wave dash because of the shape error. This disagreement may cause a data loss in Unicode texts between Unix and Windows. Unicode corrected the error in 2014.

Alternative forms

 * (the fullwidth tilde)

Particle

 * 1) Indicates the starting point of a range; from.

Alternative forms

 * (the fullwidth tilde)

Punctuation mark

 * 1) Indicates the starting point of a range; from.
 * 2) Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.
 * 1) Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.

Syllable

 * 1) * caption often found on drink vending machines
 * 1) * caption often found on drink vending machines