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U+2551 · BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL

Box Drawings Double Vertical

  • CodepointU+2551
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL
  • Decimal9553
  • 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+2551 (║) is BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE 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 95 913 bytes
UTF-1625511 code unit
UTF-32000025514 bytes
HTML named║named character reference
HTML decimal║
HTML hex║
CSS\2551in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2551
JSON\u2551
Python\u2551
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL}by name
Java / C#\u2551
C / C++\u2551universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2551}
Go\u2551
Ruby\u2551
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9553)
URL-encoded%E2%95%91percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+254B╋Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Horizontal U+254C╌Box Drawings Light Double Dash Horizontal U+254D╍Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Horizontal U+254E╎Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical U+254F╏Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical U+2550═Box Drawings Double Horizontal U+2552╒Box Drawings Down Single and Right Double U+2553╓Box Drawings Down Double and Right Single U+2554╔Box Drawings Double Down and Right U+2555╕Box Drawings Down Single and Left Double U+2556╖Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single U+2557╗Box Drawings Double Down and Left