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Box Drawing

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

Summary

Box Drawing is an Unicode block[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of unicode_block entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Box Drawing's image is recorded as UCB Box Drawing.png[3].
  • Box Drawing's instance of is recorded as Unicode block[4].
  • Box Drawing's follows is recorded as Enclosed Alphanumerics[5].
  • Box Drawing's followed by is recorded as Block Elements[6].
  • Box Drawing's part of is recorded as Basic Multilingual Plane[7].
  • Box Drawing's has use is recorded as semigraphics[8].
  • Box Drawing's Commons category is recorded as Unicode 2500-257F Box Drawing[9].
  • Box Drawing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0s8xmc4[10].
  • Box Drawing's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Box Drawing block[11].
  • Box Drawing's described at URL is recorded as https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf[12].
  • Box Drawing's described at URL is recorded as https://www.unicode.org/charts/fr/PDF/U2500.pdf[13].
  • Box Drawing's depicted by is recorded as Unicode chart Box Drawing[14].
  • Box Drawing's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Box Drawing'}[15].
  • Box Drawing's has part is recorded as Q109615047[16].
  • Box Drawing's has part is recorded as Unicode character[17].
  • Box Drawing's Unicode range is recorded as U+2500-257F[18].

Why It Matters

Box Drawing ranks in the top 9% of unicode_block entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_box-drawing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Box Drawing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/box-drawing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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