Box Drawings Down Single and Horizontal Double HTML entity &boxHd;

&boxHd;: HTML entity for Box Drawings Down Single and Horizontal Double ╤ (U+2564), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.

Entity: &boxHd;
Code point: U+2564
Unicode name: BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
Block: Box Drawing
Category: Other symbol (So)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&boxHd;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`╤`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`╤`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2564";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2564"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2564"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%95%A4`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 95 A4`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2564`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&boxHd; writes U+2564 (Box Drawings Down Single and Horizontal Double), a symbol from the Unicode Box Drawing block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Box drawing and block characters only line up in a monospaced font, such as inside <pre> or <code>.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).