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U+256C · BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal

  • CodepointU+256C
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9580
  • 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+256C (╬) is BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE 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 95 AC3 bytes
UTF-16256C1 code unit
UTF-320000256C4 bytes
HTML named╬named character reference
HTML decimal╬
HTML hex╬
CSS\256Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u256C
JSON\u256C
Python\u256C
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u256C
C / C++\u256Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{256C}
Go\u256C
Ruby\u256C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9580)
URL-encoded%E2%95%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
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+256A╪Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double U+256B╫Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single 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 U+2571╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left U+2572╲Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right