U+254D "╍" Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+254D "╍" Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal is a graphical glyph used within the box-drawing block to represent a heavy, double-dashed horizontal line segment. Its visual design features two thick parallel dashes with a prominent gap between them, distinguishing it from solid or single-dashed counterparts. Designed primarily for creating text-based diagrams, tables, and user interface elements in environments that rely on monospaced fonts, this character helps form visually structured borders or separators where a balanced, heavy double-line effect is desired.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+254D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Double 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 0x95 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x254D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000254D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u254d |
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 |