Box Drawings Up Heavy And Down Horizontal Light

U+2540
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ╀
Hex ╀

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2540
Decimal
9536
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Box Drawings Up Heavy And Down Horizontal Light.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
╀
HTML Hex
╀
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 95 80
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
25 40
UTF-32 Hex
00002540
CSS Escape
\2540
JavaScript Escape
\u2540
Python Escape
\u2540
URL Encoded
%E2%95%80
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