Unicode Character "╂" (U+2542)

The character ╂ (Box Drawings Vertical Heavy And Horizontal Light) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2542. 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 Heavy And Horizontal Light
Unicode Codepoint U+2542
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+2542 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ╂
HTML (hex) ╂
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%95%82
CSS \002542
JavaScript, JSON \u2542
C, C++, Java \u2542
Python \u2542
Rust \u{2542}
Ruby \u2542

How to type "╂"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 5 4 2. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 5 4 2. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x95 0x82
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2542
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002542

References