Box Drawings Light Horizontal vs Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Box Drawings Light Horizontal

U+2500

Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark

U+30FC

Property Comparison

Property Box Drawings Light Horizontal Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
Codepoint U+2500 U+30FC
Decimal 9472 12540
HTML Entity ─ ー
HTML Decimal ─ ー
HTML Hex ─ ー
UTF-8 E2 94 80 E3 83 BC
UTF-16 25 00 30 FC
UTF-32 00002500 000030FC
CSS Escape \2500 \30FC
JS Escape \u2500 \u30FC
Python Escape \u2500 \u30FC
URL Encoded %E2%94%80 %E3%83%BC
Category Other Symbol (So) Modifier Letter (Lm)
Block Box Drawing Katakana
Script Common Common
Bidi Class ON L
Unicode Version 1.1 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.