U+253F "┿" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+253F "┿" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy is a graphic symbol used primarily in text-based user interfaces and technical diagrams to draw borders and grid lines. As its name indicates, this character combines a light vertical line with a heavy horizontal line, creating a cross or intersection that visually distinguishes the horizontal axis as thicker or more prominent. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which was designed to allow the creation of simple geometric layouts using monospaced fonts, making it especially useful for representing charts, tables, or terminal-based applications where precise line weights are needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+253F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy |
| 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x253F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000253F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u253f |