U+2500 "─" Box Drawings Light Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2500 "─" Box Drawings Light Horizontal is a single continuous horizontal line used primarily for creating simple text based diagrams, tables, and borders in plain text environments. It belongs to the Box Drawing block, a set of characters designed to form grid lines and boxes when combined in monospaced fonts and terminals. This specific character represents the thinnest or lightest style of horizontal line, often paired with vertical counterparts like U+2502 "│" to construct rectangular frames without gaps. Its consistent appearance across different systems makes it a standard tool for ASCII art, command line interfaces, and any application that requires structured text layouts without graphical elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2500 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Horizontal |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ─ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ─ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x94 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2500 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002500 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2500 |