U+253C "┼" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+253C "┼" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal is a glyph used in text-based interfaces and terminal graphics to represent the intersection point where a single vertical line and a single horizontal line cross. It is part of the Box Drawing block within the Unicode standard, designed to construct simple rectangular frames and grid structures without requiring actual images or complex formatting. This character is drawn with thin, light strokes at a standard thickness, making it consistent with other light box-drawing symbols for creating basic tables, diagrams, or text partitions in plain text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+253C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Vertical and Horizontal |
| 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x253C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000253C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u253c |