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U+2501 · BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal

  • CodepointU+2501
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9473
  • 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+2501 (━) is BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY 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 94 813 bytes
UTF-1625011 code unit
UTF-32000025014 bytes
HTML decimal━
HTML hex━
CSS\2501in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2501
JSON\u2501
Python\u2501
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u2501
C / C++\u2501universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2501}
Go\u2501
Ruby\u2501
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9473)
URL-encoded%E2%94%81percent-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+2500─Box Drawings Light 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+2500─Box Drawings Light 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 U+2507┇Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical