━
Technical information
| Symbol | ━ | |
| Name | Box drawings heavy horizontal | |
| Unicode number | U+2501 | |
| Category | Heavy lines | |
| Description | The Unicode character ━, or U+2501, is known as the "Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal". It is part of the "Box Drawing" block, which includes characters that can be used to create various forms of box-like diagrams and tables. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it appears as a long, straight horizontal line that extends from left to right. This line is considered "heavy" due to its relative thickness compared to other lines in the block, providing a more emphasized and bold appearance. In the realm of box drawings, this character can be used as a part of a larger grid or table structure, often serving as a horizontal divider or boundary. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ━ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ━ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%94%81 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x94 0x81 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010100:10000001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2501 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002501 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2501" | |
| CSS Code | \2501 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2501" | |
| Perl | \x{2501} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2501" | |
| Python 3 | \u2501 | |
| Ruby | \u{2501} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ━ in sentence and in bold like this ━ and in italic like this ━.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>━</span>
span {
content: "\2501";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana