Unicode Character "╀" (U+2540)

The character ╀ (Box Drawings Up Heavy And Down Horizontal Light) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2540. 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 Up Heavy And Down Horizontal Light
Unicode Codepoint U+2540
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+2540 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ╀
HTML (hex) ╀
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%95%80
CSS \002540
JavaScript, JSON \u2540
C, C++, Java \u2540
Python \u2540
Rust \u{2540}
Ruby \u2540

How to type "╀"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 5 4 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 5 4 0. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x95 0x80
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2540
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002540

References