Box Drawings Double Horizontal

Part of Box Drawing Characters

On Windows, hold Alt and type 205 on the numeric keypad to insert box drawings double horizontal.

Alt code
Alt+205
HTML entity
═
Unicode
U+2550

About this symbol

═, the double horizontal line, is Alt+205. The IBM PC’s character set had double as well as single lines, and DOS programs often drew the outer frames of windows in double lines and the dividers inside in single ones.

Unicode facts

Official name
BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL
Type
Symbol
Unicode block
Box Drawing
Unicode group
Double lines
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)

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