U+254E "╎" Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+254E "╎" Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical is a graphic symbol used in text based interfaces and technical documentation to represent a vertical line composed of two short parallel dashes or segments, which gives it a double dashed appearance within box drawing frameworks. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of the Unicode standard, specifically occupying codepoint U+254E, and is typically employed to construct borders, frames, or grid structures where a light weight vertical separator with a broken or dashed visual style is desired. This character is distinct from solid vertical lines or continuous double lines, offering a subtle visual cue for dividing content in plain text environments such as terminal emulators, documentation comments, or early computer graphics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
╎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
╎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x95 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x254E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000254E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u254e |
Unicode Properties