Box Drawing

Unicode block (U+2500-257F) containing symbols for making separation rulers, bordered charts and tables

Thing unicode_block Q3513039

Facts

9 properties

Instance of: Unicode block
Follows: Enclosed Alphanumerics^[2]
Followed by: Block Elements^[3]
Part of: Basic Multilingual Plane^[4]
Has use: semigraphics^[5]
Depicted by: Unicode chart Box Drawing^[6]
Has part(s) of the class: Unicode code point, Unicode character^[8]^[9]
Official name: Box Drawing^[7]
Unicode range: U+2500-257F^[10]

🏷️ Also known as

en Box Drawing en U+2500-257F de Unicode-Block Rahmenzeichnung de Unicodeblock Rahmenzeichnung es Apéndice:Caracteres Unicode/Cajas fr U+2500-257F fr filets ja けい線素片 ja 罫線素片 ko 괘선 ru Псевдографика vi Phụ lục:Unicode/Box Drawing zh 制表符

🔖 Identifiers · 4

Image (Wikimedia Commons): UCB Box Drawing.png ↗
Described at URL: www.unicode.org, www.unicode.org
Freebase ID: /m/0s8xmc4
Topic's main category: Category:Box Drawing block

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🔗 Connections

Depicted by 1

Unicode chart Box Drawing

Followed by 1

Block Elements

Followed by (predecessor) 1

Block Elements

Follows 1

Enclosed Alphanumerics

Has use 1

semigraphics

Instance of 1

Unicode block

Preceded by (successor) 1

Enclosed Alphanumerics

Topic's main category 1

Category:Box Drawing block

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Category:Box Drawing block

← Depicts 1

Unicode chart Box Drawing

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Summary

Box Drawing is an Unicode block^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Box Drawing — follows (P155): Enclosed Alphanumerics. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Box Drawing — followed by (P156): Block Elements. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Box Drawing — part of (P361): Basic Multilingual Plane. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Box Drawing — has use (P366): semigraphics. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Box Drawing — depicted by (P1299): Unicode chart Box Drawing. unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Box Drawing — official name (P1448): {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Box Drawing'}. unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Box Drawing — has part(s) of the class (P2670): Unicode code point. unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Box Drawing — has part(s) of the class (P2670): Unicode character. unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Box Drawing — Unicode range (P5949): U+2500-257F. unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Box Drawing is an instance of Unicode block (Q3512806) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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