U+2502 "│" Box Drawings Light Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2502 "│" Box Drawings Light Vertical is a single vertical line character included in the Box Drawing block of the Unicode standard, designed primarily for creating simple text based diagrams, tables, and user interface elements in monospaced fonts. It is typically rendered as a thin continuous vertical stroke and is often combined with other box drawing characters like horizontal lines and corners to form grid structures. Despite its visual simplicity, this character plays an important role in producing consistent and portable line art across different systems and applications ranging from terminal emulators to text only data visualization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2502 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Vertical |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Vertical |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | │ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | │ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x94 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2502 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002502 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2502 |