U+254B "╋" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╋
U+254B "╋" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Horizontal is a block drawing symbol composed of a thick vertical line intersecting a thick horizontal line at their centers, forming a bold plus sign shape. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of the Unicode standard, which provides a set of characters for creating simple text-based diagrams, tables, and borders in monospaced fonts. This specific glyph is often used to represent a heavy intersection or junction point in grid layouts where both axes have a consistent thick weight. Its design ensures clear visibility and distinction from lighter box drawing variants, making it useful for emphasis in technical documentation and retro terminal art.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+254B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy 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 0x95 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x254B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000254B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u254b |