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U+2508 · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal

  • CodepointU+2508
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9480
  • 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+2508 (┈) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH 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 94 883 bytes
UTF-1625081 code unit
UTF-32000025084 bytes
HTML decimal┈
HTML hex┈
CSS\2508in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2508
JSON\u2508
Python\u2508
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u2508
C / C++\u2508universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2508}
Go\u2508
Ruby\u2508
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9480)
URL-encoded%E2%94%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
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 U+2509┉Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+250A┊Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250B┋Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250C┌Box Drawings Light Down and Right U+250D┍Box Drawings Down Light and Right Heavy U+250E┎Box Drawings Down Heavy and Right Light