U+253B

BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9531

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 94 BB 226 148 187 3
UTF-16 LE 3B 25 59 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 3B 37 59 2
UTF-32 LE 3B 25 00 00 59 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 3B 0 0 37 59 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 84 B3 132 179 2
EUC-JP A8 B5 168 181 2
GBK A9 DF 169 223 2
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
┻
┻
\253B
\u253B
%E2%94%BB
\u253b
9531

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
94
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
BB
UTF-8: E2 94 BB · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+253B

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

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