Unicode Character "┿" (U+253F)

The character ┿ (Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+253F. 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 Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy
Unicode Codepoint U+253F
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+253F Conversion

HTML (decimal) ┿
HTML (hex) ┿
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%94%BF
CSS \00253F
JavaScript, JSON \u253F
C, C++, Java \u253F
Python \u253F
Rust \u{253F}
Ruby \u253F

How to type "┿"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x94 0xBF
UTF-16 (hex) 0x253F
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000253F

References