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U+256A · BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE

Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double

  • CodepointU+256A
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
  • Decimal9578
  • 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+256A (╪) is BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE, 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 AA3 bytes
UTF-16256A1 code unit
UTF-320000256A4 bytes
HTML named╪named character reference
HTML decimal╪
HTML hex╪
CSS\256Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u256A
JSON\u256A
Python\u256A
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE}by name
Java / C#\u256A
C / C++\u256Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{256A}
Go\u256A
Ruby\u256A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9578)
URL-encoded%E2%95%AApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2564╤Box Drawings Down Single and Horizontal Double U+2565╥Box Drawings Down Double and Horizontal Single U+2566╦Box Drawings Double Down and Horizontal U+2567╧Box Drawings Up Single and Horizontal Double U+2568╨Box Drawings Up Double and Horizontal Single U+2569╩Box Drawings Double Up and Horizontal U+256B╫Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single U+256C╬Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal U+256D╭Box Drawings Light Arc Down and Right U+256E╮Box Drawings Light Arc Down and Left U+256F╯Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Left U+2570╰Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Right