U+254F "╏" Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+254F "╏" Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical is a graphic symbol used in text based interfaces and technical documentation to represent a vertical line composed of two heavy parallel dashes separated by a small gap. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode and is typically employed in the creation of borders, tables, and diagrams within terminal environments or plain text files. This character helps construct visually distinct vertical segments, offering a heavier, dual stroke appearance compared to standard single vertical box drawing lines, and is often used alongside its complement the horizontal heavy double dash, U+2550.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+254F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Double 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 0x95 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x254F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000254F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u254f |
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 | Alphabetic |
| 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 |