U+2508 "┈" Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2508 "┈" Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal is a graphic symbol within the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams, tables, or simple user interfaces. It consists of a light, unbroken horizontal stroke segmented into four evenly spaced dashes, providing a distinct visual break that is less solid than a continuous line but more structured than a dotted or single-dashed pattern. This character is commonly used alongside other box-drawing symbols in plain text environments, such as terminal applications or code comments, to represent the top or bottom edges of a box or to extend a horizontal border with a lighter, fragmented appearance. Its fixed width and simplicity make it ideal for monospaced fonts, ensuring precise alignment in ASCII art and technical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+2508
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Quadruple Dash 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 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2508
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002508
C/C++/Java Escape \u2508

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 Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
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