U+23BA "⎺" Horizontal Scan Line-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⎺
U+23BA "⎺" Horizontal Scan Line-1 is a typographic symbol used primarily in technical and screen display contexts, particularly as part of a set of horizontal scan line characters. It appears as a short, thin horizontal bar, and its design is intended to represent the first of several lines in a raster pattern, often employed in terminal emulators, character graphics, or old computer system interfaces to create visual effects or simulate scan lines. This character is part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Technical block and serves a niche but specific role in representing low resolution display artifacts or timing marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23BA |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Horizontal Scan Line-1 |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⎺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⎺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8E 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23ba |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |