Unicode Character "━" (U+2501)

The character ━ (Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2501. It is encoded in the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ━.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
Unicode Codepoint U+2501
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Box Drawing
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2501 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ━
HTML (hex) ━
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%94%81
CSS \002501
JavaScript, JSON \u2501
C, C++, Java \u2501
Python \u2501
Rust \u{2501}
Ruby \u2501

How to type "━"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 5 0 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 5 0 1. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ━
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ━
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ━
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x94 0x81
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2501
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002501

References