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U+253C · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal

  • CodepointU+253C
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9532
  • 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+253C (┼) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL 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 BC3 bytes
UTF-16253C1 code unit
UTF-320000253C4 bytes
HTML named┼named character reference
HTML decimal┼
HTML hex┼
CSS\253Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u253C
JSON\u253C
Python\u253C
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u253C
C / C++\u253Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{253C}
Go\u253C
Ruby\u253C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9532)
URL-encoded%E2%94%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
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+253B┻Box Drawings Heavy Up 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 U+2542╂Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Horizontal Light