U+2509 "┉" Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2509 "┉" Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces and technical documentation to create horizontal lines composed of four thick, evenly spaced dashes. It belongs to the Box Drawing block, which provides a standardized set of characters for drawing simple charts, borders, and diagrams in plain text. This specific character is considered "heavy" meaning the dashes are thicker than standard light line characters, and it is often employed alongside other box drawing symbols to form continuous heavy horizontal segments in grid layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2509 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2509 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002509 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2509 |