U+2503 "┃" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2503 "┃" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical is a graphic symbol used primarily in text-based user interfaces and technical documentation to create box-like structures, charts, and diagrams, where it represents a thick, solid vertical line that is visually more prominent than its light counterpart, U+2502. This character is part of the Box Drawing block within Unicode, which provides a set of line and corner elements specifically designed for constructing frames and borders in monospaced fonts, making it essential for applications that require precise visual separation of content without relying on graphical images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2503 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Vertical |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2503 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002503 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2503 |