Unicode Character "┼" (U+253C)

The character ┼ (Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+253C. It is encoded in the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ┼.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal
Unicode Codepoint U+253C
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Box Drawing
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+253C Conversion

HTML (decimal) ┼
HTML (hex) ┼
HTML (named) ┼
URL Escape Code %E2%94%BC
CSS \00253C
JavaScript, JSON \u253C
C, C++, Java \u253C
Python \u253C
Rust \u{253C}
Ruby \u253C

How to type "┼"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 5 3 C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 5 3 C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ┼
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ┼
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ┼
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x94 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0x253C
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000253C

References