U+23BB "⎻" Horizontal Scan Line-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+23BB "⎻" Horizontal Scan Line-3 is a graphic symbol included in the Miscellaneous Technical block, designed to represent a horizontal scanning line in visual display or raster graphics contexts. Its name specifically indicates it is the third variant in a series of horizontal line characters, often used in technical diagrams or schematic depictions of cathode ray tube (CRT) scanning patterns. While not commonly seen in everyday text, this character supports the representation of legacy monitor scan lines and can also appear in certain block-element illustrations for low-resolution display effects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23BB |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Horizontal Scan Line-3 |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23bb |
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 |