U+250A "┊" Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+250A "┊" Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical is a vertical line composed of four evenly spaced light dashes, used primarily in text-based graphical interfaces to create broken or dotted vertical borders within box-drawing diagrams. It belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which provides a set of characters for forming simple frames and grids using terminal or monospaced fonts. This specific character offers a lighter, interrupted visual line compared to solid vertical lines, making it useful for separating columns or indicating faint divisions without fully blocking the view of adjacent content. Its design ensures that when combined with other box-drawing characters, it can maintain alignment in technical documentation, flowcharts, or ASCII art.

General Properties

Code Point U+250A
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Quadruple Dash 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 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x250A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000250A
C/C++/Java Escape \u250a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other