Light horizontal line

Meaning and uses

A thin horizontal line from the box drawing set. Repeated, it makes a clean divider, ──────, because most fonts join it up without gaps.

Unicode details

─ is the Unicode character named BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL, code point U+2500, in the Box Drawing block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ─

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 2500 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ─.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “box drawings light horizontal”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2500, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ─. In a CSS content property, use "\2500".