U+23BD "⎽" Horizontal Scan Line-9 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⎽
U+23BD "⎽" Horizontal Scan Line-9 is a graphic symbol from the Miscellaneous Technical block, specifically representing one of the nine horizontal scan lines used in teletext and early computer display technologies to define character shapes within a dot matrix grid. It is the bottommost line in the standard 9-line scanning sequence, corresponding to scan line number 9, and is employed as a visual building block for rendering blocky graphics or text in low-resolution environments. This character is part of a set that allows for the creation of partial or full horizontal bars, and it remains supported in modern fonts for legacy display and emulation purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23BD |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Horizontal Scan Line-9 |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23bd |
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 |