U+2501 "━" Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Heavy Horizontal
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common