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U+253B · BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Heavy Up and Horizontal

  • CodepointU+253B
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9531
  • 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+253B (┻) is BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL, 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 BB3 bytes
UTF-16253B1 code unit
UTF-320000253B4 bytes
HTML decimal┻
HTML hex┻
CSS\253Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u253B
JSON\u253B
Python\u253B
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u253B
C / C++\u253Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{253B}
Go\u253B
Ruby\u253B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9531)
URL-encoded%E2%94%BBpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2535┵Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right Up Light U+2536┶Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light U+2537┷Box Drawings Up Light and Horizontal Heavy U+2538┸Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light U+2539┹Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy U+253A┺Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy U+253C┼Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal U+253D┽Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right Vertical Light U+253E┾Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light U+253F┿Box Drawings Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy U+2540╀Box Drawings Up Heavy and Down Horizontal Light U+2541╁Box Drawings Down Heavy and Up Horizontal Light