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U+2538 · BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT

Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light

  • CodepointU+2538
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
  • Decimal9528
  • 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+2538 (┸) is BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT, 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 B83 bytes
UTF-1625381 code unit
UTF-32000025384 bytes
HTML decimal┸
HTML hex┸
CSS\2538in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2538
JSON\u2538
Python\u2538
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT}by name
Java / C#\u2538
C / C++\u2538universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2538}
Go\u2538
Ruby\u2538
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9528)
URL-encoded%E2%94%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2532┲Box Drawings Left Light and Right Down Heavy U+2533┳Box Drawings Heavy Down and Horizontal U+2534┴Box Drawings Light Up and Horizontal U+2535┵Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right Up Light U+2536┶Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light U+2537┷Box Drawings Up Light and Horizontal Heavy U+2539┹Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy U+253A┺Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy U+253B┻Box Drawings Heavy Up and Horizontal U+253C┼Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal U+253D┽Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right Vertical Light U+253E┾Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light