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U+2502 · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

Box Drawings Light Vertical

  • CodepointU+2502
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
  • Decimal9474
  • BlockBox Drawing (U+2500–U+257F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2502 (│) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL, a symbol in the Box Drawing block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type │

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 94 823 bytes
UTF-1625021 code unit
UTF-32000025024 bytes
HTML named│named character reference
HTML decimal│
HTML hex│
CSS\2502in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2502
JSON\u2502
Python\u2502
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL}by name
Java / C#\u2502
C / C++\u2502universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2502}
Go\u2502
Ruby\u2502
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9474)
URL-encoded%E2%94%82percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2503┃Box Drawings Heavy Vertical U+FF5C｜Fullwidth Vertical Line U+FE31︱Presentation Form for Vertical Em Dash
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Characters built on │

U+FFE8￨Halfwidth Forms Light Vertical
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2500─Box Drawings Light Horizontal U+2501━Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal U+2503┃Box Drawings Heavy Vertical U+2504┄Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal U+2505┅Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal U+2506┆Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical U+2507┇Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical U+2508┈Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal