Horizontal Scan Line-1

U+23BA

About Horizontal Scan Line-1

Horizontal Scan Line-1 is the Unicode character ⎺ at codepoint U+23BA in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Horizontal Scan Line-1

To use the Horizontal Scan Line-1 symbol (⎺) in HTML, insert the entity ⎺ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⎺ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\23BA';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23BA' evaluates to ⎺. In Python source, write '\u23BA'.

The character encodes to E2 8E BA as UTF-8 bytes and 23BA as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9146.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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