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U+2015 · HORIZONTAL BAR

Horizontal Bar

CodepointU+2015
NameHORIZONTAL BAR
Decimal8213
BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPd — Dash Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 80 95`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2015`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002015`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&horbar;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`―`
HTML hex	`―`
CSS	`\2015`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2015`
JSON	`\u2015`
Python	`\u2015`
Python	`\N{HORIZONTAL BAR}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2015`
C / C++	`\u2015`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2015}`
Go	`\u2015`
Ruby	`\u2015`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8213)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%80%95`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2014—Em Dash U+2500─Box Drawings Light Horizontal U+2501━Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal U+30FCーKatakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark U+3161ㅡHangul Letter Eu U+FF0D－Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus U+1173ᅳHangul Jungseong Eu U+2F00⼀Kangxi Radical One U+31D0㇐CJK Stroke H U+4E00一CJK Unified Ideograph-4e00 U+A7F7ꟷLatin Epigraphic Letter Sideways I

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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →

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