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U+2500 · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Light Horizontal

  • CodepointU+2500
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9472
  • BlockBox Drawing (U+2500–U+257F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2500 (─) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL, a symbol in the Box Drawing block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ─

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 94 803 bytes
UTF-1625001 code unit
UTF-32000025004 bytes
HTML named─named character reference
HTML named─named character reference
HTML decimal─
HTML hex─
CSS\2500in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2500
JSON\u2500
Python\u2500
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u2500
C / C++\u2500universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2500}
Go\u2500
Ruby\u2500
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9472)
URL-encoded%E2%94%80percent-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+2015―Horizontal Bar 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 Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2501━Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal U+2502│Box Drawings Light Vertical U+2503┃Box Drawings Heavy Vertical U+2504┄Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal U+2505┅Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal U+2506┆Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical