U+254D "" Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Heavy Double Dash Horizontal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x254D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000254D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u254d