U+2501 "━" Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2501 "━" Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal is a single horizontally oriented line segment from the Box Drawing block, characterized by its thick, bold stroke weight designed to create distinct visual separation in text based diagrams and user interfaces. It is commonly used in combination with other box drawing characters to form the top or bottom borders of rectangular frames that require emphasis, such as in command line applications, plain text tables, or ASCII art. This character occupies a single character cell in monospaced fonts and is part of a larger set of heavy line symbols that provide a more pronounced alternative to standard light weight box drawing lines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2501 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy 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 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2501 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002501 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2501 |