HORIZONTAL BAR
- Category
- Pd — Dash Punctuation
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 8213
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HORIZONTAL BAR 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 80 95 | 226 128 149 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | 15 20 | 21 32 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 20 15 | 32 21 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 15 20 00 00 | 21 32 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 20 15 | 0 0 32 21 | 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 | 81 5C | 129 92 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A1 BD | 161 189 | 2 |
| GBK | A8 44 | 168 68 | 2 |
| Big5 | not supported |
Escape Sequences
How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.
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View U+2015 on CharLookup.com ↗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.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ON — Other Neutral