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by tetsuo13 5688 days ago
Are there dashes in Japanese? I suppose the interpunct character (・) best represents the idea.

The ー character is typically used with hiragana and katakana to elongate the previous character's tailing sound: リー for the name Lee (rii), メートル for meter (meetoru), as examples.

The ー character is not used after kanji because their sound cannot be elongated.